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Old Mar 16, 2011 | 11:08 PM
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2000 wj. fuel, spark, and compression all good. cranks and backfires out of throttle body. good fuel pressure, Seems like timing, rotor spins, need to check the camsensor somehow, someone put a cranksensor and it has a rpm signal. im lost
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Old Mar 17, 2011 | 06:20 AM
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Your camshaft position sensor is absolutely the #1 suspect here.

It controls fuel injector timing as well as other things, and if the timing for fuel delivery is off, that can create the backfires you are experiencing.

You can test them, or you could just replace it.
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