Yup I hydrolocked it
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From: Wilmington,NC
Year: 1989
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0
Typical too fast through a mudhole story left me dead in the water. Pulled plugs in the field and got it started, ran it home on 3-4 cyl before I realized I had plug wires switched. So it is running on all six now... but it still doesn't act right. In drive it wont rev past 3000 but if I put it in 2-1 it will. Also at 2000 rpm it will pulse and surge. Then as I was almost home it started to die at stop signs. Oil change is planned, where else should I start? And its my daily driver too boot!! So sad being a broke college kid.
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From: The Republic of TEXAS
Year: 1998
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0L HO
Bet your grandad would have. Isn't that why u go to school?.....to learn something from a lecture?.....but learning is not always limited to a lecture in a classroom, as u have learned, no? Maybe u'll lecture someone some day on what might happen when u drive thru a mud puddle too fast/too deep.
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From: Warren PA
Year: 1999
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0L
Update for the day
Oil had no milky-ness what so ever during the oil change
put on a new dist cap and rotor, lots of moisture in the cap dried it and gave it a douse of wd-40
took the throttle body off and cleaned it
too the IAC apart and cleaned it
then ran the seafoam routine 1/3 can in the tank 1/3 can in the oil and 1/3 can down the throttle body, but after i waited 5 min and restarted to blow the smoke out of the system i noticed after that i was back down to 5 cylinders. i checked the plug wires and cap. no change. not sure why i would lose one like that.
bought and installed new TPS for a while after installing it it idled at about 1300 RPM but after running a while settled down to about 900 still higher than normal but better.
Oil had no milky-ness what so ever during the oil change
put on a new dist cap and rotor, lots of moisture in the cap dried it and gave it a douse of wd-40
took the throttle body off and cleaned it
too the IAC apart and cleaned it
then ran the seafoam routine 1/3 can in the tank 1/3 can in the oil and 1/3 can down the throttle body, but after i waited 5 min and restarted to blow the smoke out of the system i noticed after that i was back down to 5 cylinders. i checked the plug wires and cap. no change. not sure why i would lose one like that.
bought and installed new TPS for a while after installing it it idled at about 1300 RPM but after running a while settled down to about 900 still higher than normal but better.
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