ridered3
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Interesting turn of events on the trip.
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Trying to get it mostly right the first time: A 5.9 Magnum and 46RE swapped, Tummy Tucked Daily Driven Jeep TJ
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Dan_Goodwin
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I finally carved out some time to update this thread.
Picking up from where we left off, I decided to take a weekend to get the Jeep back up and running. The short answer is that it's fixed, though I'm not entirely sure what the problem was. I pulled the intake off and re-sealed it (in hindsight that was mostly a waste of time), cleaned and reinstalled the original IAC and cleaned the throttle body and that fixed the issue.
The test drive for the Jeep was a few trips to work and then a 300 mile round trip to Auburn and though the stalling issue was resolved, it developed a bad misfire that I suspected was due to poor plug wire routing on my end. A few poser pictures from our Auburn trip:
The misfire got so bad that the Jeep was practically undrivable so this was the next issue to dive into. These engines are known to have an issue with spark knock caused from improper spark plug routing (there's actually a TSB for it), so wire routing was the first thing I confirmed correct. Next I started pulling plug wires one a time and checking for resistance. Sure enough one of my brand new plug wires had gone bad (or I'd broken it) so I threw on an old wire and it's been running like a top since.
Enter January of 2024 and the cold temperatures exceeded my motivation to work outside so I moved to working on things that fit inside my shop. I ran to the farm and picked up the 8.8 I purchased a while back and stripped it, welded the center section to the tubes and primed and tacked the Barnes 4wd truss to prep for the axle swap. I'm shooting to swap the axle out this summer once I've sold a few jet skis to replenish my project fund.
Picking up from where we left off, I decided to take a weekend to get the Jeep back up and running. The short answer is that it's fixed, though I'm not entirely sure what the problem was. I pulled the intake off and re-sealed it (in hindsight that was mostly a waste of time), cleaned and reinstalled the original IAC and cleaned the throttle body and that fixed the issue.
The test drive for the Jeep was a few trips to work and then a 300 mile round trip to Auburn and though the stalling issue was resolved, it developed a bad misfire that I suspected was due to poor plug wire routing on my end. A few poser pictures from our Auburn trip:
The misfire got so bad that the Jeep was practically undrivable so this was the next issue to dive into. These engines are known to have an issue with spark knock caused from improper spark plug routing (there's actually a TSB for it), so wire routing was the first thing I confirmed correct. Next I started pulling plug wires one a time and checking for resistance. Sure enough one of my brand new plug wires had gone bad (or I'd broken it) so I threw on an old wire and it's been running like a top since.
Enter January of 2024 and the cold temperatures exceeded my motivation to work outside so I moved to working on things that fit inside my shop. I ran to the farm and picked up the 8.8 I purchased a while back and stripped it, welded the center section to the tubes and primed and tacked the Barnes 4wd truss to prep for the axle swap. I'm shooting to swap the axle out this summer once I've sold a few jet skis to replenish my project fund.
ridered3
Not Rigless
Glad to see an update to this thread!
