mysunnshine
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- City
- Phoenix
- State
- AZ
As most of you know, I have had my Jeep for a couple of years now collecting parts before I do a mass change to it. My father in-law decided that we needed some wheeld for the cabin this winter for Elk season. Needless to say, I have been working on the Heep to get it ready recently. A few weeks ago I took it up to the mountains to it's new home and got it registered in the meantime( registered as a PU truck too). I took it out for it's first "real" drive and soon figured out that the smoking motor actually got somewhat worse creeping around at idle. Up to this point, the only driving I had done with it was on the dyno checking the fuel loads. The other issue I had found was the plastic fuel tank has a crack in the top corner pissing fuel out of it.
Flash to this weekend. I made my way up north on the scooter to fix the fuel tank and put some valve seals on the motor. I proceeded to yank the Clifford valve cover off and the rocker arms off. I pulled the #1 cylinder springs off and was suprised to find nearly new seals and really tight valve guides. Now mind you that I have no history on this motor and have absolutely no idea of mileage also. I do know that the motor has 150psi compression though. SO now that I know that the valve guides and seals are good, then the smoking must be from either glazed cylinders or the PCV valve is sucking oil off of the baffle plate. Now out comes the existing baffle and a new larger baffle is now installed. I take it out for a test drive to verify and it's every bit of 50% better than it was.
So we leave out later in the afternoon to do some scouting in the heep. We're cruising along in low range across 6-12" rocks trying to work the 80's version of the rock-solid Rough-Country springs. I don't think that these spriongs move more than 1/4" either. After a few hours cruising around, we decided to head back. Shortly afterward, the Jeep starts to cut out from loss of fuel. Well maybe when I had the tank out earlier to plastic weld the crack I pinched a hose when I man handled the tank back into place. It started out cutting out at about 2500 but by the time we got back, it was a lot closer to idle at most. As a reminder, we are in the mountains and not Kansas. So after a couple of hours of limping it home, we made it back. Of course running it lean on the way back might help seat the rings too.
The next morning I pulled the tank to check the hoses with none found being pinched. I blew thru the feed line from the tank and it was free and open. The tank cap when removed does not show any signs of a vacuum. The fuel filter is free and clear also. So out comes the float needle with no problems found there also. It does have a brand new fuel pump on it too. Needless to say, the pump just will not put out enough volume.
So we get it squared away and off we go again. It does good for a few hours and then somthing elso happens. When we stoipped at a crossroads of a trail to check the map, I shut off the mtor. Upon the restart, it started to kick back on the starter and squeel the belt. Upon inspection, I see that the air pump has now decided to lock up on me(it's a serpantine belt system too). So off comes tre belt and back to the house again. The only difference between then and the day before is it's only 15 miles from the cabin instead of about 10-12 miles. So after taking the belt off, it's now 3rd gear low range bouncing acroff the rocks for 1/4 mile at a time until the motor gets hot. Fortunately the motor does not make enough HP to create enough heat to be a HUGE issue. So after starting and stopping numnerout times, we finally get down to the road. Fortunately driving down the road gives it enough air flow to cool the motor by convection. So needless to say, you can run on of these motors without a water pump moving. Who would have thought. So now I need to get the proper belt length to bypass the air pump pulley.
Even with all that had happened, it was pretty nice getting back behind the wheel again after selling my last Heep that I had for 17 years a few years ago to move out to AZ. At least the weather was really nice(65F and 10-15 winds) and had a chance to do some scouting also. Now it's time to start another parts list for the next round of repairs. Hopefully I'll be able to work out all of the kinks before it gets cold and the snow starts.
In the pics you can see the repair of the crack and how hot the tank got sometime prior in it's life.
Welcome to owning a Jeep....LOL
Flash to this weekend. I made my way up north on the scooter to fix the fuel tank and put some valve seals on the motor. I proceeded to yank the Clifford valve cover off and the rocker arms off. I pulled the #1 cylinder springs off and was suprised to find nearly new seals and really tight valve guides. Now mind you that I have no history on this motor and have absolutely no idea of mileage also. I do know that the motor has 150psi compression though. SO now that I know that the valve guides and seals are good, then the smoking must be from either glazed cylinders or the PCV valve is sucking oil off of the baffle plate. Now out comes the existing baffle and a new larger baffle is now installed. I take it out for a test drive to verify and it's every bit of 50% better than it was.
So we leave out later in the afternoon to do some scouting in the heep. We're cruising along in low range across 6-12" rocks trying to work the 80's version of the rock-solid Rough-Country springs. I don't think that these spriongs move more than 1/4" either. After a few hours cruising around, we decided to head back. Shortly afterward, the Jeep starts to cut out from loss of fuel. Well maybe when I had the tank out earlier to plastic weld the crack I pinched a hose when I man handled the tank back into place. It started out cutting out at about 2500 but by the time we got back, it was a lot closer to idle at most. As a reminder, we are in the mountains and not Kansas. So after a couple of hours of limping it home, we made it back. Of course running it lean on the way back might help seat the rings too.
The next morning I pulled the tank to check the hoses with none found being pinched. I blew thru the feed line from the tank and it was free and open. The tank cap when removed does not show any signs of a vacuum. The fuel filter is free and clear also. So out comes the float needle with no problems found there also. It does have a brand new fuel pump on it too. Needless to say, the pump just will not put out enough volume.
So we get it squared away and off we go again. It does good for a few hours and then somthing elso happens. When we stoipped at a crossroads of a trail to check the map, I shut off the mtor. Upon the restart, it started to kick back on the starter and squeel the belt. Upon inspection, I see that the air pump has now decided to lock up on me(it's a serpantine belt system too). So off comes tre belt and back to the house again. The only difference between then and the day before is it's only 15 miles from the cabin instead of about 10-12 miles. So after taking the belt off, it's now 3rd gear low range bouncing acroff the rocks for 1/4 mile at a time until the motor gets hot. Fortunately the motor does not make enough HP to create enough heat to be a HUGE issue. So after starting and stopping numnerout times, we finally get down to the road. Fortunately driving down the road gives it enough air flow to cool the motor by convection. So needless to say, you can run on of these motors without a water pump moving. Who would have thought. So now I need to get the proper belt length to bypass the air pump pulley.
Even with all that had happened, it was pretty nice getting back behind the wheel again after selling my last Heep that I had for 17 years a few years ago to move out to AZ. At least the weather was really nice(65F and 10-15 winds) and had a chance to do some scouting also. Now it's time to start another parts list for the next round of repairs. Hopefully I'll be able to work out all of the kinks before it gets cold and the snow starts.
In the pics you can see the repair of the crack and how hot the tank got sometime prior in it's life.
Welcome to owning a Jeep....LOL
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