mrmel2you Posted May 22, 2016 Share Posted May 22, 2016 Not sure what or how I did it---but "The Beast" is ALIVE :banana: Some of you might remember, when I first bought this MJ, it was in rough shape. Has a 2.5l popcorn popper that sounded worse than a Geo Metro, only running on 3 cylinders. I pulled the head off, only to find out 2 bolts were broke off in the head and only 3 bolts were left holding everything else on. It only had a piece of speaker wire for a ground between the engine and firewall. Almost all the vacuum lines were unplugged or missing altogether. I found the problem with the head was due to a broken exhaust valve in #3 cylinder. Luckily no damage to the head, seat or cylinder. Replaced the valve, new stem seals and lapped all the valves. So far so good. Put the head back on, hooked everything back up---used new bolts and washers (grade 8 or better). Run all new vacuum lines (thank you WEB for the vacuum diagrams and wiring schematics). Started it up the following day, ran great for about an hour, went driving around the lake. Came home and started up the drive-----it died :( Spent the next 2 days checking, cleaning and resealing all the connectors/fuses/relays etc... Still had no spark or fuel from the tbi unit----fuel pressure up to the tbi was up to specs though, but nothing coming through it. Spent the better half of the day today rechecking everything. Walked inside the house, neighbor came over and talked with them for about 15 minutes. They left and I went outside to crank it over one last time------it fired right up!!! After everything I did, and all the checking, double checking and triple checking---I still don't know what in the heck happened, it just started right up!!! I'm telling ya----"The Beast" has ghosts or gremlins lurking under the hood of it, LOL :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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