Hey everyone - I've been lurking the forums here since I bought my first XJ back in October - '99 Classic with ~194k miles.
I found a set of 31s on Craigslist, ordered a RC 3" full leaf/coil kit, and a few other upgrades and tuneup items...
Anyway - among those items were plugs, wires, cap, and rotor. Copper plugs, Accel cap, rotor and 8mm Accel wires. Pretty standard.
Installed everything and it started right up, no 3-5 second start, but under acceleration it was lurching a bit, almost dying a couple of times. Idle seemed ok from what I could tell.
Tried everything - ensured the cap was seated properly, added dielectric grease to all connections, re-routed wires. Nothing worked. On the third test drive, the CEL came on.
Got it around the block, put the old dist. cap on, and now it seems to run fine like it did before the change, but still has the CEL. I suppose I can clear the CEL, but what gives? Bad dist. cap? Gonna try another one this week and see if that's the problem.
I should also mention I changed the air filter at the same time:
http://www.amazon.com/Spectre-Perfo...8-2-1766-14-3-0&sr=1-1&ymm=1999:jeep:cherokee
I found a set of 31s on Craigslist, ordered a RC 3" full leaf/coil kit, and a few other upgrades and tuneup items...
Anyway - among those items were plugs, wires, cap, and rotor. Copper plugs, Accel cap, rotor and 8mm Accel wires. Pretty standard.
Installed everything and it started right up, no 3-5 second start, but under acceleration it was lurching a bit, almost dying a couple of times. Idle seemed ok from what I could tell.
Tried everything - ensured the cap was seated properly, added dielectric grease to all connections, re-routed wires. Nothing worked. On the third test drive, the CEL came on.
Got it around the block, put the old dist. cap on, and now it seems to run fine like it did before the change, but still has the CEL. I suppose I can clear the CEL, but what gives? Bad dist. cap? Gonna try another one this week and see if that's the problem.
I should also mention I changed the air filter at the same time:
http://www.amazon.com/Spectre-Perfo...8-2-1766-14-3-0&sr=1-1&ymm=1999:jeep:cherokee