I think I'm safe in saying a small tick is normal in the old AMC engines. Mine does it all the time, still need to get it fixed.

 

It just started making it. Sounds aweful! I hate it! The YJ isnt that old its a 91 with under 150k miles on it

 

Is it a 4.0 I6 or a V8?
btw, i like your silly stats.

 

Its a 4.0, inline 6 hi output

 

Then yeah, the tick's normal. It'll be the lifter like your mechanic said, or at least that;s what my mechanic said lol.

 

Ok so your making Purple a happy girl! Maybe it was just the crust on the battery posts, making him die but what about this muffler thing, you said a magnaflow would have any blockage, this blockage feels solid and metal like its not soft

 

Clogged cat.

 

I have the magnaflow performance muffler and its not a perfectly straight tube through it, I its got a very slight S curve.

 

Also, dirty battery terminals won't affect anything while the engine is running as everything gets powered by the alternator. But if your alternator is bad then yes dirty battery terminals may cause driving problems

 

Imma go shove a wire hanger up its keester, there is something there lol. Like a plate or something. It drops off right before the thing that my tire goes on so I cant really look in there.

 

No only when coming to a stop when not pressing gas its bogged out and died, but started up, and if I put in N it shut off lol put in gear it came back on, crazy I tell ya just crazy

 

At least take it out to dinner first! I really don't think anything is blocking it. As mentioned above the magnaflow has a slight bend in it so you will contact metal when using a clothes hanger to fix a drunken mistake from a party...

 

The battery is probably shot, a weak battery that can't maintain a charge will cause stalling and a low idle.

Have the battery load tested for free at a place like autozone. If you can't make it, you could swap another battery in place of it. I a very similar issue where if I let off the throttle for more than a second or two it would stall. Drove with 2 feet and popped it into neutral when coming to a stop kept it running lol.

 

Ahh ok, maybe he is just pissed at me then, cuz he wouoda loved the road trip lol. Or maybe Im just being a female and worring over nothing and forgot what it was like to drive my JGC and remembered how much I do like it! And after a 8 hr road trip in it, jumping in YJ was like OMG whats that noise!? Lol

 

Yeah thats what it did and had some goobers on bothe posts, so I cleaned them up.