Liquid in my air filter housing

LoneGrey: Your Engine stroked itself out....

Does it come back? Or was it just a one time thing?

Someone else just had the same problem in a 258 YJ and after figuring his PCV system was likely working ok, the diagnosis appeared to be a bad valve on the exhaust air tubes that connect into the middle of the air filter.

Those valves can be eliminated from the system for a test by plugging the holes with wine corks.

Seeing as you will be getting rid of or shutting off 'all' the pollution controls with your HEI and 2100, these exhaust tubes can be unhooked from the air filter and permanently blocked. On one that was broken, we blocked it down at the CAT with a large bolt that happened to fit the tube perfectly.

And just an FYI for you. The stock Weber-Carter BBD on it can be made to behave quite nicely with a $20.00 carb kit and some tweaking, especially after the computer is taken out of the circuit.

Mike

86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail >

For a longer lasting solution, rubber corks from a chemical supply house. ;^)

It's funny; I used to work on automobiles full time in the seventies, right when the pollution controls all came out. After working on a few vehicles I figured, along with a lot of other mechanics, that the damn things didn't do anything except make the cars run more poorly and use more fuel. Except the PCV, of course, don't disconnect that. A big laugh was the attempt to use higher (numerically lower) gear ratios in an attempt to increase fuel mileage (kilometerage north of the border). The Dodge dealer where I worked did a healthy business in axle ratio changes, in order to restore a semblance of performance and economy to his customer's vehicles.

Now with fuel injection this is all theoretically "better", but as Mike likes to say a properly tuned carburetor performs quite nicely too.

Earle

The Haynes CJ manual is the best one for the engine and under hood wiring for the 258 YJ's.

The ignition module is 'Waaaaaayyyyy' down under the washer bottle at the bottom of the fender skirt.

Here is a good site for all things 258:

Here are some specifics about killing that Ford emissions cpmputer: And: I prefer to add two new wires when bypassing the computer by hooking the orange and purple wires at the ignition module directly to the orange and purple wires at the distributor rather than mess inside the harness. Especially in a YJ, because the colors in the harness are different than the CJ the article is written about.

Here is an article on the HEI:

Here is a 'great' article on getting that Weber-Carter BBD purring at idle: Hope some of this helps,

Mike

86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail >

OMG! ROFLMAO!

I am amazed at all the stuff you guys know and have url's for. I do all the reading I can and never find the stuff you guys give me. One guy on another site gave the address to a gas tank supplier with a 28 gallon tank for my 88 YJ that will replace the 15. Comes with new sending unit and all mounting hardware for $183.00. A new skid plate is only $69 more. Best I could find was $700 and buy my own new sending unit for a 20g.

Thanks guys.