Ant.

Hello All,

I just put a 00 -01 cherokee 4.0 which had coil packs on it, I have a 99 cherokee that I put the motor in.. My 99 has a distributor...

How do I get the firing order right?? Anybody done this swap before? Do I need to rotate the distributor, There is a lock that wont allow me to rotate the dist..

Any help is appreciated..


Ant...

Ant.

Pretty sure I figured it out, Ill know tomorrow, Its dark out so I cant realy see. .. Found a few different images for the firing order, Gotta love google..Hehe!!!

Ant...

SeriousOffroad

See post 15 of the following thread:
https://www.cherokeeforum.com/f2/col...e-4-0-a-23233/

Ant.

Thanks a bunch..
I was going bye the book and it shows #1 ( TDC ) at 6 o'clock
not 5 o'clock , Big difference.. When I googled it and looked at the images
of firing ordre I saw it showed some images at 5 o'clock and some 6 o'clock.. Hmm Kind of weird..

Thanks,

Ant...

Ant.

Hello Everyone,

Just took Jeep out with the new motor and she ran perfect..

All xcept for I am kicking myself in the ***..

When I first bought the jeep it had a small exhaust leak.. But at the same time I found 2 exhaust bolts in the jeep and when I took the old motor apart I noticed previous owner left out the 2 exhaust bolts that I found in the jeep..

Once old motor was out I looked over the exhaust manifold really well ( Atleast I thought) Saw no cracks or any other damage.. So I figures I would save the money that it would cost for a new one and just put the old one back in and would ya know, Sure enough the damn exhaust manifold is cracked and I can hear that exhaust leaking, Hate that damn noise..

All because I tried to save 130.00 bucks, Now I have to pull the exhaust side all apart again, ... Well, New maniifold is on the way


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notverycreative

This is the only thread i found on this, So i had to join although i have a tj (Shhh..) it's been killing me for two weeks!! I put an 05' 4.0 into my 97 (switched injectors, alternator, other stuff) to fit my wiring harness, then we switched the coil packs to distributor, set it to 3, 4 AND 5 o'clock pos. Got the best and only results which was still way out of time at 4 o'clock.. wouldn't idle rpms jumped and only ran with my foot on the gas, what the heck am i missing?!

watertrucker

Maybe you can static time it. I had to time my old 63 cj5 that way. Just turn engine until # 1 cylinder is at TDC on the compression stroke. Then pop off dist. cap and look where the rotor is pointing. Connect your #1 wire to that tower and just follow firing order for other 5.