Backfire WTF!

[sincitycj]

I was heading to work this morning and was just about there when the CJ felt like it was bogging down and out of no where there was a backfire thru the exhaust and of course it dies. I managed to pull over and get it restarted. I went about a quarter mile and it died again, I restarted it again and it ran fine for the last couple of miles or so. Yesterday morning I felt the bogging but it never backfired or died. On the way home yesterday it ran beautiful, which should have been my first indication that something was wrong so I'm think it may some how be temp. related. All of the gauges were normal. Any thoughts?

[HillBillE]

2 I can think of.

First: Electrical, sounds like the power to the coil is cutting out. If the ignition cuts out, then gas flows in, ign comes back (spark) hits all the raw gas= BOOM! Backfire.

That would explain the bogging -loss of spark, the backfire is just a result of the gas flowing in and not being burned, becuase of no spark.


Second: Timing chain slack-if the timing chain is worn, it will run funny, and possibly back fire.


Sounds more like the first one to me, a temporary loss of spark. I'd check the connections at the coil, the coil wire, and the distributor hook up.

[ColoFreeJeeper]

Second: Timing chain slack-if the timing chain is worn, it will run funny, and possibly back fire.

So that was the Taliban Special Forces guy's problem in the other thread.

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[sincitycj]

2 I can think of.

First: Electrical, sounds like the power to the coil is cutting out. If the ignition cuts out, then gas flows in, ign comes back (spark) hits all the raw gas= BOOM! Backfire.

That would explain the bogging -loss of spark, the backfire is just a result of the gas flowing in and not being burned, becuase of no spark.


Second: Timing chain slack-if the timing chain is worn, it will run funny, and possibly back fire.


Sounds more like the first one to me, a temporary loss of spark. I'd check the connections at the coil, the coil wire, and the distributor hook up.

Electrical is the same thing I got from two of my mechanics here at work. They were both leaning toward the ign. module.

[treefrog]

Ignition switch going bad can also cause this. Just something else to check.