Recent content by machoheadgames

I read through this when it was posted and I wanted to help but I'm not really sure how to. I was confused by the same thing, if it wasn't overheating I don't know why so many parts were changed to help with cooling. Then for it to randomly just die sounds like something else is going on...

It is the NP231J, and there are some differences over the years. For a 4 cylinder manual, you need one with the 21-spline input gear. Meaning it needs to come from a 4 cylinder 5 speed or a rare 1988 6 cylinder 5 speed. 1987 6 cylinder were a different transfer case most of the time (NP207) and...

Yeah, I fully agree. I have never elaborated on how/why I've been through so many mounts, but basically back in 2014, I was still a noob to everything automotive, and had recently done my SYE and installed a double cardan shaft built by a local shop. My tire balance had recently been screwed up...

Well, good news. Apparently the distributor was off by a tooth. Not sure how that happened with multiple removals and restabs, but I checked TDC this afternoon and noticed the rotor was definitely not pointing in the right spot. No clue how I got that wrong last time I restabbed it, because I...

Went by Harbor Freight and bought a fuel pressure test gauge. Sure enough, fuel pressure was perfect. I didn’t think it was a fuel problem but that was certainly a variable. It runs very rough. At this point I am thinking intermittently failing CMP sensor in the used eBay distributor, or slop...

Couldn’t resist, I went out there and tinkered some more. First order of business was to pull the 1995 distributor and make sure nothing was wrong with it. I compared it to my old distributor which when last installed, ran fine. Only thing I noticed was that the oil pump drive was clocked...

Well I decided screw it, try to fire it up. It fired up, but it runs quite rough and stumbles immediately when you hit the gas. Not sure why. I really don’t think I got the timing 180° out, because the last time I cranked it, it was a test run and I backed it into the driveway and then pulled...

Pulled the distributor this evening. Nothing to report, I put the drill in the oil pump and it was pumping oil very quickly. Had I cranked the engine it would have been just fine. Of course, and had I not, I probably would have run dry again. Oh well, it was good anyways because I “upgraded” to...

Yeah, I saw how nasty yours was. I have never ran tap water, so I have that going for me. I'm hopeful that a healthy dose of thermocure and Prestone will do it to clean mine up. The bigger thing for me is if my bearings/crank/cam/lifters incurred any damage by being run without oil. The lifters...

Exactly how it went for mine. In 2020, I started spending some money and started with a lift, nice bumper/tire carrier, needed to drop the gas tank for that, don't remember how but eventually the entire interior was torn apart and the transmission was out for a clutch and flywheel and oil pan...

Got a new battery a couple days ago. Needed this very badly - I tried to charge the old battery and all it did was get up to 11.5 V and then swell real bad and got super hot. I went with a Legend Professional from NAPA. Mother’s Day made it a tolerable price. I went with the stock Group 58...

You really should get rid of the Moog u-joint numbering and stick to the industry standard numbering. People don’t speak in 269, 369, etc. That is only Moog.

For the record, most all of those acronyms you listed are synonymous. ECM - Engine Control Module PCM - Powertrain Control Module ECU - Electronic Control Unit (typically) SBEC - single board engine controller The YJ engine computer is referred to as a PCM by Mopar. Typically, a PCM is one...

Mic it between the ears and mic the size of the cap. 1310 is a 3.219” dimension end to end and the cap size is 1.062”. 269 is not a u-joint size, that is a Moog number. Stick to the 1310 style numbering for less confusion. Don’t go based on vehicle.

You're on the YJ forum, you'll want to migrate over to the TJ forum to get more details about maybe getting the screw and magnet pulled back out of the vent.