Recent content by KellyBuilt

That's what it was y'all! Had the distributor set at TDC on the exhaust stroke on #1, turned the motor over till I felt air pushing my finger out in the #1 cylinder to TDC and re-indexed the distributor and it fired right up! Thanks for the help from everyone!

Well the distributor plug in is facing the passenger fender well and every picture I've looked at shows that that's correct, unless I'm missing something?

I bought a 1990 XJ with a bad 4.0 motor (fist sized hole in the block) and found a good used one from a 98 Cherokee, I put all the renix accessories on the H.O motor and got it installed in my Jeep. It has a new distributor and I'm pretty sure its indexed correctly, with the #1 cylinder at TDC...

Well not what I wanted to see at all. http://imgur.com/gallery/Q3bwvQc Guess it's time for a rebuild

I'm definitely going to pull the oil pump today or tomorrow and check everything out. I dont believe the pin is sheared? With the plugs out of the motor it should turn over fairly easily with a breaker bar and socket right? Cause it seems too hard to move. Heres a pic of my distributor...

Hey there, so I just got a non running 1990 Jeep XJ. Previous owner said it ran good then quit and acted like it was out of time when he went to turn it over. I brought it home, put a new battery in it and sure enough it sounds like it out of time. He thought maybe the timing chain had broke, I...