Crank No Start again

[Jesse J]

Well my jeep was running great until yesterday after school driving home about 500 feet from my house it sputtered and died. spent the next 4 hours trying to get it to run including sawing off my exhaust muffler back because 2 people at school told me some dingus shoved a rag up my tailpipe. Ended up towing it home with my buddies xj. Started fluid didnt work. Cleaned the plugs this morning because thats what was wrong the last 2 times. 

[89 MJ]

Do you have fuel pressure?

Can you hear the fuel pump when you turn the key?

Can you confirm that you are getting spark?

[Jesse J]

8 minutes ago, 89 MJ said:

Do you have fuel pressure?

Can you hear the fuel pump when you turn the key?

Can you confirm that you are getting spark?

can't confirm spark I am alone atm. I can hear the fuel pump

[89 MJ]

I’d check for spark then. How old are your cap, rotor, plug wires, and spark plugs?

[Jesse J]

old ish. might be worth replacing. my plugs are pretty new

[Pete M]

not that it's ever bad a bad thing to do a basic tune up, but before you fire the parts cannon, check for spark coming out of the coil.    do you have an inline spark tester? 

 

 

[Jesse J]

55 minutes ago, Pete M said:

not that it's ever bad a bad thing to do a basic tune up, but before you fire the parts cannon, check for spark coming out of the coil.    do you have an inline spark tester? 

 

 

no. and I have no way of getting one atm.

 

is this nub supposed to be black I can't rember if it was last time I had my cap off

 

[Jesse J]

no spark judging from the videos I that I took from my engine bay with 2 different sets of plugs. no spark when I put a plug in the wire from the coil to the distributor idk if thats an actual test but I thought I would try

[Pete M]

I've got no way of knowing if you held them close enough to get the spark to jump.  did you test the CPS resistance? 

[Jesse J]

54 minutes ago, Pete M said:

I've got no way of knowing if you held them close enough to get the spark to jump.  did you test the CPS resistance? 

held them close enough to a ground? I didnt check my cps

[Jesse J]

checked my coil and it is good

[Jesse J]

cps checks out I am skeptical of the connector one of the male pins is bent and the female is shoved back in there but I think they are touching

[Pete M]

"I think" is not the same as "I know".   there are only a few things needed to get spark.  one of them has failed.  any parts store will have that spark checker.  possibly even walmart.

[Jesse J]

jumped the connector and it fired up! there is quite a bit of engine smoke I think because I didnt bolt my downtube onto my manifold correctly (because that was my first fix when I heard about the exhaust rag

[Pete M]

excellent