Suzuki Samurai Restoration Part 75, Bed Liner Complete, She's Got Issues!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ส.ค. 2024
- I finish the rear bed liner with Herculiner. I bed line the roll cage and explore the engine stumble on idle and make a very stupid mistake!
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The diaphragm you are seeing is on the EGR system, exhaust gas recirculating valve. Part of the emission system. Without the ECM and original carb probably not working as designed.
Thanks, yeah when I had it out I traced it onto a piece of metal, might just block it off. I think that hole might explain why the #4 plug was so clean. I thought that would solve my rough idle issue but it didn't. Yesterday I was able to drive about 8 miles round trip to get pizza, an hour ago I took it to the mailbox and it died and didn't want to restart. I had to push it home. Felt like fuel starvation, I dont know how I made it home yesterday but I'm thankful. I'm gonna go check it in a few minute. Check fuel pressure going to the carb and if that's good it might be that power valve I replaced yesterday in the bottom of the bowl. Hopefully I'll have answers in the next video. Thank you again!
got somethin that will just make you happy, we turned the air conditioning today at 3pm for the first time this yr....🤭😆
@@FixLife119 yeah it was so hot today at lest 80...lol....yep you hav a gremlin
Lol, you lucky sob. How cold does it get in winter?
@@FixLife119 LOL kinda very but most of the time around 30 can get lower and sometimes 50s around Dec 30 if it get below that it don't stay to long .. now watch this yr get colder
@@numbskullskills Dang it gets that cold here.
@@FixLife119 it's not to bad here. Did you get the coil changed out yet
That cap is to plug rear of valve. Bleeds exhaust gas out and as long as the valve does not open it should not affect the intake.
Get rid of those plugs. Look up what should go in it. Wrong ones. New wires also.
Yeah these NGK's aren't impressive, I think I saved my old one's. I only replaced them because I figured it might help back when I was on my quest to pass emissions. I might clean them up and throw em back in to see if there's any change. I prob will do what you said and look up what it came with. There's so many more choices now than back in '87. I just swapped the wires with my roommate's new Delco ones and it didn't seem to make a difference so I don't think the wires are the issue.
Some week ago I asked if you would keep the car or sell it. You said you’d have to sell it.
If it was me, no kids, no wife, I’d sell the Jeep and keep the Samurai just for the heck & fun of it. Just for the fun of not being/doing what everyone else would.
I thought about it but it doesn't have AC, can't really go over 60mph, cant fit much in it, and I can't leave anything in it with the soft top. I just need something more practical for a primary vehicle. Plus I don't think I'd even get much for the Jeep, I love that thing, but they're not worth much. It's my favorite vehicle that I've ever had, and I've had quite a few. Only thing that sucks is how much it chugs gas, but it's such a fun vehicle with the awd and that hemi.
I understand, I’ll forgive you. 😂
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Commenting as watching. No would not replace EGR valve. Blank off where it mounts to manifold.
You're commenting as watching and I'm commenting without reading the other comments lol. Yeah I'll prob block it off but it didn't seem like a huge priority cuz I don't think it's working anyways, just didn't want that hole in it. All that sludge kinda tells me it was sucking and hopefully that's why my plug was so clean. New issue now I described in the other comment. Thing sure likes to keep me on my toes lol. Thanks!
@@FixLife119 The gunk is probably from the exhaust.
@@SteveCramer-nh9ee Yup. There's an extra tube in the back intake runner that I think gets the exhaust gasses to the EGR valve. Kinda weird that it's only for cylinders 3 and 4. I guess thats enough to cool down the cat to acceptable levels.
Spark plug wires …
If all wires are the same why don’t you use some leftover speaker wires? 😂
Don’t go cheap on wires. Get the best ones you can find as they will transfer the best level of electricity to your spark plugs.
Please reinstall the roll cage, it’s a good safety item.
For sure. I just gotta re-wrap that rear quarter panel first.
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Thanks.
That panel is a sad story. Happy to see you’re persistent.
why did you choose to have a sand texture finish over just paint?
Do you mean the blacks stuff I put down in the bed? If so that's bed liner. It's just a really tough coating that stands up to abuse. It had some on there from the factory (rough texture black coating) but its 37 years old so I was just redoing it and trying to make it look better. What I did in these last 2 videos was with a product called Herculiner. I bought the bed liner kit for like $120 at Advance Auto. It's on Amazon for $99, (I think I put a link in the description). I did the floor on the front part of the cab months ago and it rolled on so much better back then, but where I live it's 110° right now and part of it evaporated which made it more clumpy and harder to lay down. I have a video or 2 of when I did the front area and you can see how much nicer it laid down when it was a fresh can.
you da me rewindin that like five times tryin to figure out what that was then you waited all the to the end wtf lol. depressing was watching the dollar amount rise an very little gas goin in. the back looks good man the whole things lookin good. id block off the egr an take out all that goes to it. that thing probably had an air pump an all kinds of emeition crap with the new carb an headers eliminating most just take the rest out. ill ponder the miss. its hard not bein thr to hear it. thats a new cap right, weres the computer/igition crap whats it look like. an check all the grounds
I cleaned the rotor and studs inside the cap recently, new plugs, ohm'd out the wires... She was getting spark, at least yesterday it was. Guess maybe I should check again. I already have the top of the carb off again, might pull it all the way off. Just a weird little issue I'm having, but I'm hoping that when I figure it out the idle issue will be resolved too.
@@FixLife119 im sure youll figure it out, im not a big fan of weber carbs, ill read your othr later on the phone sorry i havent replyed yet
Looking at the color of the sparks I think you’re running sparks one or two grades too cool. Getting slightly warmer plugs and you should get the beige color instead of dry black.
I'll prob do that if I can ever get her running again. I think I have a bad coil all of a sudden and I'm bout to take the Weber skeet shooting. Thank you for the tip!
Cracked coil verified. All the angry pixies are arcing out from under the boot to the ground lug on the coil. Crazy that you noticed the color of the spark. Yesterday I checked for spark before I took the carb all the way off again. I had spark, then later, after the carb was back on, no spark. I was trying to check a plug like the last video and my dad noticed orange by the coil boot. Then I started digging and found the crack.. Hoping that was my erratic idle issue. Also hoping the hole in the EGR valve was why that #4 plug was so clean. We'll know soon enough. I'm gonna try to track down a coil today. Anyways, good eye noticing the color of the spark!
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Strange that the coil broke. Good you found it the error.
#4 spark is probably clean because of lack of fuel or lack of spark igniting it.
@@BorisEkner Yeah that could very well be. That hole was right at the end of the intake runner for cyl 3 & 4, so I was thinking maybe it was sucking outside air from that hole in the egr valve. I'll pull that plug again after putting some miles on her, but for today I gotta replace the coil and hopefully get her running again lol.
@@BorisEkner Yeah I'm thinking with that big crack there maybe the expansion and contraction from engine heat was making that crack swell and kinda seal itself when it got hot and maybe that's why the idle wasn't as erratic when hot. I'm reaching now but it sounded good in my brain lol.
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Dang what a pain in the ass just to get it in his possession. Wait till he tries to find parts for it! Sweet rig though!!!
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Make it an overlander.
I don’t think parts will be that difficult. Most are standard, i.e., not many special parts. I think they will swap the 3L straight 6 for something more modern. I think that will be a mistake as the straight 6 has a lot of torque. Torque is what you need off-road, not HP’s.
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Travel Europe and North America with it. If you’re lucky you might catch it if they visit AZ.
Anyhow, it’s a pretty interesting project.
@@BorisEkner Yeah it looks like that build is gonna be a whole lifestyle change, switching everything up, pretty cool, I'm sure they'll have issues along the way but looking back I seriously doubt they'll regret it. That'll be alot of neat experiences at the very least.
Spark plug wires …
If all wires are the same why don’t you use some leftover speaker wires? 😂
Don’t go cheap on wires. Get the best ones you can find as they will transfer the best level of electricity to your spark plugs.
Mine ohm'd out fine so I'm prob not gonna replace em. Reember the old catalogs where you could order "build your own plug wires" kits with good quality wires? I'm just wondering if they charge more for Lexus ES plug wires vs Toyota Camry plug wires when they're the same thing. Take a given brand of plug wires, I bet they're the same lengths for alot of different makes/models of vehicles but they seem to catalog them by individual make/model for some reason.
@@FixLife119 I own a Samurai 1.3 2001 and a Citroen 2cv 602cc 2 cylinder 1978...I was having a missfire through the HT wire on the Suzy.I asked at the parts store ,and like you they sucked in breath and said they needed to order them and cost 45€ so as an experiment I swapped the plug leads from the 2cv and worked perfectly.So ordered 2 sets from the 2cv webstore for 20 € and fitted to the Suzy.Still on there after 4 years and 20.000kms.
@@jomac151 That's sooo funny you say that. The other day I was thinking about asking my dad if I could swap the plug wires from his 2001 Tacoma pickup just as a test. I couldn't remember if it has individual coils for each cylinder or normal plug wires like the Sammy. Great minds think alike lol. Thank you. I don't like changing parts unless they are actually bad.
@@FixLife119 I`m old enough to remember when you could buy plug leads by the meter,and spark plug connectors and distributor cap connecters seperately,then just cut to length and build your own,no matter what make ,model ,year or anything.Now they need to identify the year,model,engine/chasis number et,etc,etc.
@@jomac151 Exactly, in the 90's I remember buying kits, you'd just order the V8 kit and it came with a bunch of long wires and you cut em to length and terminate the ends, came with the boots and dielectric grease etc. Those days are gone. Nowadays instead of one $40 coil you got a $200 coil per cylinder. So my Samurai is 37 years old. I'm always saying if you look forward to 2061 when a current 2024 vehicle is 37 years old they will be in the crusher. They are just too complicated for it to be cost effective to restore something with that many computer modules and so much stuff to wear out. I honestly think there would be a good market for whatever auto maker produced the simplest car that any DIY'er could keep and maintain forever, with simple cheap basic parts. Probably impossible with all the emissions restrictions but a guy can dream right?