Hey followers.......WE HAVE SPARK....WOOOHOOOO
Still a bit warm out, but put on the shop clothes, grabbed the water & smokes, and headed into the heat!
Checked the existing distributor again for ground and 'pick-up" for function, and all tested out good, but would not get spark from the coil....UGH!
So, had another FSJ owner send me a known good distributor he had spare.
Put it in right where the other one was......no spark....GGGGRRRRR!
Bought one of those little spark checker light thingies you put between the plug and wire........no spark!
Took the tool over to my CJ5, to test and make sure the tester worked.
Yep, works good.
Back to the Waggy, placed the tester....and one of my CJ buddies Mongo228 was helping, and decided he would hold onto the tester...on the insulated part no less, and says "Turn it over"!
I hit the switch and the engine took flight for about 3 seconds and died.
WOOHOO....we have spark
Little did I know, but Mongo228 had spark too!
Apparently when he was holding the tester, that spark came rushing through, and grounded through his arm as it went by. WOWSERS!
I climbed out of the cab and up to the engine, and he is standing there waving his arm around.
Thought he was near as excited as I was we had spark, and thought he was doing some dance or something, and I was trying to figure out where I needed to catch the beat so we didn't look completely foolish dancing in the driveway!
No....not dancing, he was trying to shake off the shock he just received,,,,,,but dammit we had spark
So to wrap up the day after dancing....we have spark, then found the existing MC2100 was leaking gas.
We figured it might not do so well, but we started with what we had, and got a few more 3-5 second runs out of it before diving into the carb change.
Mongo228 had a brand new MC2150 he had purchased for his CJ7, and found the fuel line connection to the carb was leaking fuel, so he called it in and was sent another complete carb and told to keep the original one.
He did a JB weld fix on it, so we threw it on and fixing rubber lines etc as we went, to make sure everything was good behind and around while we were there.
Carb on, then battery was low....UGH!
Put the cables to it, and still just not cranking like it should have.
Outside temps were getting up there, we were just running sweat, truck not cooperating so we called it a day.
But hey, WE HAVE SPARK....WOOHOO
'81 CJ5 Base, 258 I6, MC2100, T176 4 spd, 300 TC, D30 Front NT, 3.31, 2-Piece AMC 20 rear NT, 3.31, 4" high arc spring lift
'84 Grand Wagoneer, 401 V8 (.030 over), Edelbrock clone 1406, 727 auto, Selec-trac NP229, AMC 20 REAR - D44 FRONT - WT 3.31, 4" high arc spring lift
Rather be driving, than waiting to be modified