No spark! Replaced everything!
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No spark! Replaced everything!
Ok its a 98 xj auto w 6cyl. its got high miles but it ran great. one day it started running funny and the cel came on. i got the light checked and came back bank one sensor two. ok no biggie running a litte ruff but still ran so i went about my day. on my way home i swing by a buddies house, we were chating and when i was about to leave he made a comment on the jeeps exhaust (stock) so i reved it up to like 4500 rpms. it sputtered then shut off. i drug it home only a few blocks away and there its sat since. I pulled the cap off and found the rotor had exploded. there was a lot of corrosion on the points and all over the inside of cap. i replaced the cap/ rotor/ plugs/ wires/ and new coil. all new parts. Nothing i still had no spark. then i went to a local junk yard and got a pcm from another 98 or 99 xj and swapped them out, still nothing. no spark. I have replaced the crank angle sensor with a new one along with the cam sensor inside the distributor. still nothing. then finally i replaced the complete distributor with a known working one from a friend. nothing! the only thing left is the ignition switch on the column and the ignition itself. Im taking any advice!! how can i test the ign switch? also i have switched around some relays and the ASD functions properly. Another thing i should mention is the key to my old xj worked better in the ignition than the factory one so i was using that key. a few days before all this happend the key got stuck in the ignition so i left it there. no biggie i guess but not sure if this is having any effect on it. and no neither keys have the chip inside them. just a regular key. thanks a lot for any help!
short version..... replaced plugs/wires/cap/rotor/distributor/coil/crank angle sensor/ pcm and no spark!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
short version..... replaced plugs/wires/cap/rotor/distributor/coil/crank angle sensor/ pcm and no spark!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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it turns over great new battery too! and i had a buddy use a test light and probe the distributor plug while turning key on and cranking to see if there was power at the dist and there wasnt anything!!
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and i have cranked it over w the cap off and the button is rotating. also checked all the fuses under the hood.
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Check all fuzes and relays inside the fuse box on passneger side wheel well that have anything to do with engine, fuel or spark. I know there is a big fuze that says something like Engine 1 or Engine Management 1. That one kills all jiuce going to the motor. I saw a shorted fuel pump cause this fuze to blow in an XJ one time.
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i can hear the fuel pump prime and i have some fuel pressure at the rail. i have chacked all the fuses and relays under the hood on passenger side. i dont know how much fuel pressure im getting but i am getting some, but the main problem is no spark! ive also heard of shorted out o2 sensor wires doing weird things. i just find it weird that i reved it and the buttone blew apart and something else randomly failed. no clue lol
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Try cleaning or replacing your NSS. If that's not it I had a chevy do that because the oil sensor was bad and the computer thought I had no oil pressure and refused to spark.
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im looking up where the nss is now.. going to look at that now. i had a bad oil pressure signal thing by the oil filter on another xj but it ran fine. thanks!
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if the nss were bad wouldnt it not allow it to crank or would it? because ive tried starting some cars in gear and it doenst let it crank?
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I didn't notice you checking power to and from the coil. The distributor should have taken care of the other issues associated with an exploding button, odd as it is.
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yea the distributor came out of a known running jeep and i replaced the cam sensor and the rotor and cap. so it should be good. just weird that it happend the way it did. rev then die lol