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No pdf exists of the TBI manual….yet You can find them on eBay still.

Great ideas. However I’m on a time crunch with the temp plate to try to pass emissions. I think I do, I’m gonna have to clean it up and look at it but it’s has an adapter plate that mated to the 2.5L manifold from what looks like the base of the 258 manifold. I’ve contemplated the bypass, however I wasn’t sure I could do it since I can barely find any info on what you can and can’t do in AZ related to carbs and stuff. But since I can do a carb swap, a nutter bypass can be done along with the HEI stuff. Though the duraspark is running pretty good to my surprise. It does have that sole-vac or idle stop as it was called on other AMCs but I adjusted that screw so the idle stop isn’t doing much.

That’s the thing. Haha. Both are easy. I’m close on the Carter carb, it’s running rich to where it’s not passing. But the other can be just as easy of a swap since I have it and could get more power. LS powered eagle. That’s a monster.

Lol. Lets pass emissions first then I can have some real fun.

Need a little help as I am on the fence with what I can do given that I found out I can do a carb swap.

I don’t hear about many converting from TBI to HO so this will be neat. I recommend looking at 4.0 Renix to HO swaps since it should be the same just minus 2 cylinders.

Heck yeah!!! That little cartridge comes in handy. I really should look into getting that reproduced in some fashion.

Picture comes from the AMC|Jeep TBI manual.

Ehhh a VIN is a VIN.

Looking great at the Jeep farm Jeep show this morn!

Two close to the bottom of first post. This is what the wire should look like.

No. It’s a constant power wire. If you plug it into the available spade terminal on the coil, it will turn some stuff inside the cab on. Kinda neat but also known to keep the Jeep running.

It’s a red wire, somewhere around the coil and gets infamously plugged into the coil. It always has power to it. I know I’ve got one or two of the retractable lights for sale. An option. There’s also the early and SJ style lamp and then yeah there’s the late XJ lamp but it will need a ground wire added as those aren’t metal.

I don’t care what anyone says. These things are cool and protect the front. Even in the Comanche outfitters book from AMC has a drawing of the desert fox with a cover.

Correct

So are you wanting to convert from Renix to HO?

Good times. Gooooood times.

ICM contacts to the coil are known to corrode and not give a good spark.

Well hot damn!

Ok has the clicking been around with the old pump too?

Oh yeah. Each Jeep is it’s own journey to getting it roadworthy and like it was from the factory. Are you sure that the clicking isn’t something internal to the pump? Or something else? I can’t imagine a pulley doing this but stranger things. Is the clicking rhythmic or is it just a random click?

I installed AC in mine a few years ago so pics won’t help. HOWEVER! I can say when I didn’t have AC that the alt had the AC style pulley on vs the no AC pulley. It did in fact throw the belt alignment off. Not enough to do any damage or anything like that. But it was noticeable when looking at the belt from the power steering down to the alt.

Ill get you a pic later. Forgot this morning. As for B, what I’m saying is is the alt bracket for setups without AC sinks the alt further in so towards the firewall, opposed the AC setups where the alt moves toward the radiator and uses a more standard pulley. That’s why your alt has that weird extra groove on it. I’ll also look in my parts manual and see what’s goin on there. I can’t see it being to specific unless it’s a size thing. I’ve seen on 86’s have a different pulley for the Saginaw pump. But what you need to do is just get the belt in line. Otherwise you’ll end up destroying belts.

Correctamundo! And you’ll know when you set it up right or wrong. CC will work like normal but the vents for HVAC will stop blowing correctly.

No. Nope. One line goes to the valve and the other goes to the HVAC. One vac line supplies vacuum to all of the HVAC including the heater valve. I believe the purple one is heat and black is vacuum. Now here’s where this is interesting. You can hook this vacuum reservoir up wrong. One side is meant to be stronger than the other. Meaning if you hook the HVAC up to the wrong side, you’ll lose vacuum under acceleration to the HVAC learned this the interesting way haha.