I have finished rebuilding my wranglers engine and i am going to try and start her up tomorrow all i have to do is hook up the fuel line and put some gas in the bowl wish me luck
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11-13-2008
I have finished rebuilding my wranglers engine and i am going to try and start her up tomorrow all i have to do is hook up the fuel line and put some gas in the bowl wish me luck
11-14-2008
Throw some mickies and a snow plow on that sucker and get ready for the snow
11-14-2008
All ready have a plow aka the front bumper. waiting is going to suck i just want to get it started and be done with it. I hope i dont have to take the head off i did not soak the lifters over night they are hydrolic ones i looked all over on the companies site and i didnt see anything about having to so i hope i am fine
11-14-2008
Do you have a old distributer? You can take the shaft out and put the dear back on, hook to a drill and use that to prime the engine of oil before start up. It would give you a good coat on the lifters.
11-14-2008
While soaking the lifters in oil is generally accepted and has been done for decades, I have read on Crane Cams website I believe it was, when I was studying lifters and how you could take them apart, they didnt recommend soaking them. Their primary argument to that was not soaking them allowed the lifters to be more accurately pumped up whereas soaking them may not allow the lifters to always mate up with the right load and such to the pushrods and cam.
Now, that said, the article made sense, came from a company I would imagine knows what they are doing. Have I got the guts to try it out? I dunno, probably not. But the 4.0L I6 is a bit easier to work on than the 3800 in those regards. I think you will be fine but I sure would like to hear what happens if when you start that up. If it goes well with you, I may put the lifters back in my engine dry and see what happens.
I dont know how long it would take for those things to pump up though, so it may make a racket for the first few seconds or minutes.
11-14-2008
Does your jeep have an inline 6?
11-15-2008
yep it has the 4.2l inline 6 did not get a chance to get it going yesterday had to replace the slave cylinder in a ranger, so first thing on monday i will give her a shot and yes it does have distributor i all ready have the oil pump primed so i should be fine.
11-15-2008
Sweet. Hope all goes fine on start up.
11-15-2008
Should be a nice drive home with no top or doors partly cloudy and 32 lol
11-15-2008
AHHHH!!!! Brings back memories. Did that once with a friend after he finished working on his. Dead middle of winter, targa top, no doors, and raining. OH, and his tires stuck out like 5 inches past the fenders. I feel for ya man.
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