I would greatly appreciate any help or insight! I have a 88 wrangler with a 6 cylinder. Problem occured about a month ago. Temp. would get to about 210 degrees and engine stalls out and will not restart untill it cools. Then runs fine untill it heats up again. First replaced the fuel pump with an electric Holley, then new thermostat, then ignititon control module, check ignition coil and ohmed out within specs. I was not sure what else to try so I broke down and took it in. Mechanics said it was bad floats in the carb. $320.00 later new carb and problem still exsists, however now it seems to get to 210 degrees, stalls and temp. gauge jumps to 220. Jeep seems to stay below 210 without stalling as long as its moving, but when ideling temp. goes up. Took it back to mechanic and now they have tried switching out pickup coil in dist., ignition coil, icm, and computer to no avail. They have told me that they do not get any voltage at failure on wire from pickup coil to computer. Possibly bad computer? Any suggestions would be awesome!
stalling problem, mechanics can't figure out
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RE: Aging Jeep- For 2000 and up jeep owners
I had the same symptoms in my CJ a couple days before it was due to be smogged. I took it to a mechanic who put a fan in front of it to keep it cool (had a bad fan clutch), and adjusted the timing quite a bit. He said that with all the emissions junk, getting the timing right is more tricky than one would expect. Got the Jeep back a couple hours later and it ran like a champ, passed emissions with so-so readings, and then I'm pretty sure the computer died and I ended up tearing out anything and everything smog related under the hood. Ran like a dream until the engine bit the dust from high mileage.
I had the same symptoms in my CJ a couple days before it was due to be smogged. I took it to a mechanic who put a fan in front of it to keep it cool (had a bad fan clutch), and adjusted the timing quite a bit. He said that with all the emissions junk, getting the timing right is more tricky than one would expect. Got the Jeep back a couple hours later and it ran like a champ, passed emissions with so-so readings, and then I'm pretty sure the computer died and I ended up tearing out anything and everything smog related under the hood. Ran like a dream until the engine bit the dust from high mileage.
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