Recent content by Saw

Good job my friend. I also am going through some similar situations with a newly rebuilt 2.5 install. Ran great during break in time. Drove to a buddy's house and starting it back up to leave. It went down hill right now. And like you, I was hesitant to check the obvious because I did not want...

Well I did what I was afraid to do... I pulled the valve cover this morning and no. 3 cylinder has a bent pushrod and will be removing the head to see. What I have to replace. Why would it bind up and bend a pushrod?

Distributor was never loosely It seems a little weird that the tab on the rotor is so wide. But I guess it works. I set the timing up to the middle of the tab on the rotor. The tab is like and it is a pain to get to the nut on this one but it's tight Yes I have checked and rechecked all vacuum...

It seems to be a random sputter and it does it from the moment it starts. Nothing to do with warming up and then starting trouble. It's just trouble from the moment the motor starts.

All was good meaning no vacuum leaks but l am trying to keep up here I promise, this is just stuff that is sort of new to me and the weather is really bad out right now and I run out and try to work on it as long as I can stand the cold. The clamp on the distributor was always tight and I have...

since then, I have reset the computer by disconecting battery terminals and put positive cable to negative for 30 sec. and then turned ignition to on and turned headlight switch on and then off and then turned off ignition and hooked up cables and still misfire.

yes sir, checked it for vacuume leaks and repaired and checked again. Took the manifold back off to replace the gasket again and inspect manifold. when put back on and tested for leaks, all was good

Hello and thank you for letting me post here. I just put a new 2.5l long block in my 89 wrangler and it started up and ran fine. I proceeded to do the break-in process and drove it after that to a friends house. Ran great, when leaving there, it started running very bad after starting it back up...