What did you do to or with your CJ today?
TnCJ
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Removed the fuel tank on the Jeep today. Trying to track down an intermittent sputtering and dying issue.
I had it narrowed down to a bunch of
in the bottom of the tank or the filter on the sending unit stopped up. I was disappointed to see that neither was the problem. Inside of the tank was surprisingly clean and so was the filter. Kinda got me scratching my head.
I was pretty sure that was the problem because it cleared up when I back flushed the gas line from the pump to tank.
Anyway ordered a new sending unit and will replace it even though I now don't think that was the problem.
I had it narrowed down to a bunch of
in the bottom of the tank or the filter on the sending unit stopped up. I was disappointed to see that neither was the problem. Inside of the tank was surprisingly clean and so was the filter. Kinda got me scratching my head. I was pretty sure that was the problem because it cleared up when I back flushed the gas line from the pump to tank.
Anyway ordered a new sending unit and will replace it even though I now don't think that was the problem.
I never thought three feet of steel line would cause so many problems. It was the same diameter (5/16) at the TBI input port, so I figured it wouldn't restrict the flow rate.
