Ben Drinkin
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Stop in for a cup of coffee
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Ddaddy
Just doing what I do
Yeah, waaaay too high. The factory service life designation is 250k miles so that one is nearing the end of it's life and will need a rebuild soon.
No. Kind of strange. Sometimes in neutral 2k rpm. Dont change anything a few stops later have to feather the throttle to keep from dying
Ddaddy
Just doing what I do
Possibly but I would check the timing first to see if it's bouncing around. I had a worn distributor in mine when I first got it and spent a month chasing what I thought was a carb issue only to fix it by replacing the dizzy. I only figured it out after spending a lot of time with the timing light reving and idling to see it drifting all over the place.
Put in neutral it is down to 1k
Ddaddy
Just doing what I do
That sound like what mine was doing.
ScampMike
Despicable Damn Yankee
weak coil? or maybe a bad ground somewhere -
ScampMike
Despicable Damn Yankee
I just got called into my bosses office - again! 
ScampMike
Despicable Damn Yankee
that's possible
zkx14
Duster De-ruster
Yep, plenty of power for gittin around. And this car ain't light. No burnouts with AWD though. Lol
Come and go tho?
what did your wife want?I just got called into my bosses office - again!
ScampMike
Despicable Damn Yankee
THAT is funny!!
Ddaddy
Just doing what I do
Unlikely with a vacuum leak.
Something is sticking, hanging up or not staying in the set position. Carb and dizzy are really the only 2 things that can do that.
So back to power valve?
Ddaddy
Just doing what I do
The V6 has a longer service life of 300k miles. I think with all of them I'd be looking at where the mileage would be ending up when I was done with the car. If you plan to put 50k miles on it while you own it, cap the miles at around 150k for what you buy. 163k might be fine if the car has been maintained well and has mostly highway miles.
Average mileage for normal driving on an '08 model should be right around 120k miles figuring an average of 15k miles per year.
Ddaddy
Just doing what I do
Either that or the dizzy. If the mechanical advance is messed up (weights, broken spring, etc) the timing will be all over the place making the idle RPM follow it.
cool cool, I'm looking to get 2-3 years out of it, maybe less. But I just know the Jeep needs yet another new clutch, making number 5 to go in and im sick of dicking with it.
Might be. But it is new
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