Recent content by dustyglyde

If it is an automatic, I would suspect the neutral safety switch is bad. It delivers a ground to your starter relay. Good Luck

I had a similiar sounding problem with my 90 cherokee. I assume since you were looking at the timing chain that it was backfiring through the intake and exhaust? If so, you might want to check this writeup. http://www.asashop.org/autoinc/feb99/techtotech.htm My failure was ignition related...

Thanks, I'm going to check it out this weekend and hopefully find a smoking gun.

Looking for some suggestions as to what to check after a recent accident I had. I rearended a minivan (my wife's, dont ask, but at least I won't get sued) and I now have a minor vibration around 40mph. It doesn't seem to be related to the eng RPM because I can drop it in neutral, at speed and it...

Another thing to check is the Neutral safety switch, mounted on the tranny. (if it is an automatic) If you replace your battery, and this issue continues, (can crank it fine by jumpering the starter) then I would think the switch is the culprit. The neutral safety switch basically delivers...

I've had this issue before (being 1 tooth off) on a 91 cherokee. The optimum position is for the trailing edge of the rotor to be pointing at your plug 1 position on the cap. I had set mine at the leading edge and it also ran horribly. If you continue to have this issue after resetting the...