Biernuts
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- Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
I'm sorry to rehash this one from yesterday. I hoping the combined experience here will help me take the best course of action (ie; try this first, then this, then this...etc)
1989 4.0L
Car had not been run for 2+ years but WAS running before it was put out to pasture after my father in law passed. It was his. Now I'm obsessed with making the old XJ right again. I need another 4X since winter's coming and we're a mile from the paved road. The wife and kids use the Ram to get to school etc so this will be a semi daily driver til the rainy season stops.
Problem:
VERY hard to start. I have to keep feathering the accel to keep it running at all. After a few starts it'll rev up then idle nice and smoothl for about 10-20secs, then violently starts chugging, then backfiring, then gives up the ghost. It will not stay running no mater what I do with the throttle.
It also SEEMS to get hot quickly according to the aftermarket temp gauge. After about 5-10 mins of running off and on the temp gauge is peggged.
So far I have done the following:
New Battery
Added 1 Can BG44K (per the OldMan) easy to get around here..
New Fuel Filter
New Gas (10 gals added to about 3 gals of old...I should have drained...)
New Cap/Rotor (I just pulled off the old and popped on the new, the rotor was in really bad shape)
New Plugs (the old ones were badly fouled)
The plugs helped a bit but not much..
I am picking up an EGR valve today...if that doesn't help, what next?
Thanks in advance...
Mark
1989 4.0L
Car had not been run for 2+ years but WAS running before it was put out to pasture after my father in law passed. It was his. Now I'm obsessed with making the old XJ right again. I need another 4X since winter's coming and we're a mile from the paved road. The wife and kids use the Ram to get to school etc so this will be a semi daily driver til the rainy season stops.
Problem:
VERY hard to start. I have to keep feathering the accel to keep it running at all. After a few starts it'll rev up then idle nice and smoothl for about 10-20secs, then violently starts chugging, then backfiring, then gives up the ghost. It will not stay running no mater what I do with the throttle.
It also SEEMS to get hot quickly according to the aftermarket temp gauge. After about 5-10 mins of running off and on the temp gauge is peggged.
So far I have done the following:
New Battery
Added 1 Can BG44K (per the OldMan) easy to get around here..
New Fuel Filter
New Gas (10 gals added to about 3 gals of old...I should have drained...)
New Cap/Rotor (I just pulled off the old and popped on the new, the rotor was in really bad shape)
New Plugs (the old ones were badly fouled)
The plugs helped a bit but not much..
I am picking up an EGR valve today...if that doesn't help, what next?
Thanks in advance...
Mark