Thanks for any guidance,
I have driven this jeep without any issue for several months, been very solid and dependable. I shut it off a month or so ago and did not restart until a few days back. I went to start and it would crank but no start, at first I thought it might be dirty fuel so I put a container of heat in the tank and let it sit over night, next day it started and idled for about 5 minutes then it shut down and would not restart until it sat for several hours.
This has been the ongoing process, starts fine, runs for almost 5 minute exactly then shuts down again, almost on Q at 5 minutes. I kept hoping that the fuel had some moisture in it as we have had lots of rain but it never will run more than 5 minutes at a time.
I cleaned the carb with Gumout and put some Gumout fuel cleaner in but still same issue continues. I have noticed the exhaust seems to be pretty strong as gar as a fuel smell but could have been doing it all along, just never paid that much attention.
It has 3/4 tank of gas, thought about adding more premium grade fuel and changing plugs and distributor cap, wires and to see if that helps.
I have not attempted to take it down the road as I dont want to pay a tow bill, figured if it stayed running at idle I would proceed with road test.
Again thanks for any help.
JWH
I have driven this jeep without any issue for several months, been very solid and dependable. I shut it off a month or so ago and did not restart until a few days back. I went to start and it would crank but no start, at first I thought it might be dirty fuel so I put a container of heat in the tank and let it sit over night, next day it started and idled for about 5 minutes then it shut down and would not restart until it sat for several hours.
This has been the ongoing process, starts fine, runs for almost 5 minute exactly then shuts down again, almost on Q at 5 minutes. I kept hoping that the fuel had some moisture in it as we have had lots of rain but it never will run more than 5 minutes at a time.
I cleaned the carb with Gumout and put some Gumout fuel cleaner in but still same issue continues. I have noticed the exhaust seems to be pretty strong as gar as a fuel smell but could have been doing it all along, just never paid that much attention.
It has 3/4 tank of gas, thought about adding more premium grade fuel and changing plugs and distributor cap, wires and to see if that helps.
I have not attempted to take it down the road as I dont want to pay a tow bill, figured if it stayed running at idle I would proceed with road test.
Again thanks for any help.
JWH
