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A shame no one will see this hub, it's all nice and shiny ! 'bout those ballast resistors... so we have low-impedance injectors ? Not yet useful, but interesting... It's moving from pic to pic, maybe it's more an issue with the memory card.

Ooooooookay so I came over the initial panic - and lack of time for a proper diagnostic. Just a backfire won't bust a crank you silly duder, you'll need quite a few ones AT LEAST. So armed with a good deal of patience, I wrenched the first piston to TDC, the distributor seems to be sending current to the third cylinder. Now time lacking again I'll adjust that something like this afternoon or next weekend. Then turn the ignition again with good results, I hope. Man, if only the truck was stored in my own town...

Unbelievably sweet ! You rock man !

Yeah, thanks. Well I found a few 4.0 less than 500 kms away. I'll probably have to borrow my dad's Tundra and take a trip south to fetch one of 'em. Maybe get a HO, too, if it's got the ECU and harness... Or there's that guy selling a complete 3.0 CRD drivetrain from a Grand Cherokee. Wouldn't it be awesome ? (If it weren't for the weight, electronics, size and I'm-not-equipped-to-fab-that-much issues) Oh man... :headpop: There's a moral to it; take your time and try to order BRAND NEW, at least for critical parts.

Well I am currently pi**ed out of my mind. I went to swap in the distributor I bought at the junkyard - to clarify in regards to my previous thread, it WAS a Renix (before I smashed it into splinters with a hammer) - fine and dandy, I remove the old one, put the "new" one in, plug the new rotor, cap and wires in the right order, double-check my wires, triple-check my wires, screw in the battery poles, turn the ignition and then Gngngn-POW !! :grrrr: I had noticed the rotating unit didn't seem perfectly right at the place I remembered it to be, but told myself "Bah ! Your mind's playing tricks on you, there's only two ways this can get in there..." :wall: Man you went through life for this long how can you be so STUPID ?! I guess the previous owner fiddled with the assembly. I wonder if his truck was junked because of a blown crank... ... OK then now. How much are stroker kits going nowadays ?

Awesome, I'll get around to it in the next few weeks so the girlfriend won't make puke noises each time she sits in the truck. :yes:

They're almost biodegradable...

Thanks ! Hey ! Nothing better than snow to clean a truck, right ?

hahaha, the aluminum clamp ate through them didn't it? (i work at a volvo shop) It collapsed under it's own weight while I was cleaning the radiator, as far as I know, but that clamp may have been to blame for the rust starting out in the first place.

Thanks, that link is awesome. It shows that I have a Renix distributor in my hands from the JY... so what the **** is in my Jeep ? I guess it's just that the stator has a different connector, maybe ? To be continued, dudes !..

I think I found a way, if I just remove the casing from the gear and put the other wires in. Anyway, this is worthless if I don't have both parts in hand. I guess I'll :clapping: myself again tomorrow. Bah ! Had it for cheap anyway.

I was looking for a pickup to haul stuff and to get my own self to unsafe but picturesque locations away from paved roads, and my father told me that his sister, to whom he had sold his truck five years prior, wanted to sell it as she had just bought a brand new econobox. The thing had been sitting in her yard for a few weeks after it started to overheat, so I got to her place with a new thermostat, installed it, filled the coolant and drove away 400 $ poorer but with a shiny new toy. The thing is a '89 Pioneer 4.0L 4WD with manual shift (and a bonus Hurst pistol-grip knob too !) and 255000 kms on the clock : It was originally red on gray, but was repainted deep green and fitted with a home-made rear bumper. The clear coat has started to peel away, so I will probably do a rattlecan paint job in matte black over the old paint and leave it at that, there is no rust to speak of and most of the dings are already puttied anyway. Mechanically everything is sound, except it needs a new distributor and the tail pipe is simply a decoration. The real mess is the interior, the seals dried off around the windshield and the rear window, and water dripped inside for quite a while. The bench smells awful and the carpets are in poor shape. So for the moment, the idea is to get the damn thing running nice and clean, change the windshield (it's so cracked it's a joke...) and seal the rear window, replace the upholstery, bolt in a nice bench and scare the neighbors. Then we'll talk about having it go faster, stronger, higher... Cheers !

Well I DID swap for a manual transmission in my Volvo when a fluid line rusted out... Overkill is the only way to go. ... OK I was already looking for an excuse at the time.

Thanks, that's what I thought. ... unless I convert the whole thing to Chrysler EFI ? Heh. It's a 4.0L yes.

Hi folks, a new guy here with a '89 Pioneer and a bit of a problem. I went for a routine maintenance on the truck, as it was left sitting in my father's backyard last autumn (had no time to work on it back then), and while trying to remove the distributor cap, both bolts broke inside the threads, rusted in. Then I drilled it, and it shattered when I tapped new threads (which, in hindsight, was not the brightest idea I had). :clapping: So anyway, the local junkyard had one in stock but the wiring harness seems to come from a newer model with the High Output engine. If I remember correctly my truck has a two-wires connector and the distributor I bought has four. Is it possible to cut and crimp the pairs into the two-wires connector that came with my old distr. or is it a no-go ?