Let us know how the installation of the new timing chain goes, but glad to hear you finally found the problem!
I've got some projects of my own: valve cover gaskets, starter, master cylinder and brake booster, and (found this out a few hours ago) A/C compressor (having no A/C is not fun).

 

Well I replaced the timing chain today after work. I just got done buttoning the engine back together about 45 mins ago. I didnt think it was too bad. Roughly 7 hours to swap a timing chain. But it still seems to be dumping way too much gas into the engine. It hesitates something feirce when I blip the throttle after shes warmed up. Then it flooded itself out.

I pulled the dist. cap off to see if the mark and the rotor will still aligned at #1tdc.

Check.

Pull plugs, give them a cleaning, regap, pop them back in.

Check.

Let it sit for a bit, turned the key, vroom she fired back up. So I let it run long enough to get warm and topped off the cooling system. Turned it off and changed the oil and oil filter. Checked the tire pressures. Got back in and started it up. Backed it out of the driveway. I managed to get about an 1/8 of a mile up the road and it started to buck, sputter, choke, and damn near died on me. It was all I could do to get it turned around and heading for home. Then I couldnt even get it up into second gear because when I would push the go pedal down she would buck and sputter. Felt more like a rodeo ride then a cruise in the ol' kota. But that first few moments of pulling out of the drive way all the way up to third gear it felt great again.

So I think tomorrow I will go get a new o2 sensor. I think the black sooty substance I tried to clean off the one in there now may have ruined it. My buddy tried to tell me you can clean them and then demonstrated this with some brake parts cleaner, a lil kerosene, and a torch........I think it may be ruined. I was just gonna try to blow it off with some comressed air.

I do however have a question about the throttle sensor I replaced. Were the 94 throttle sensors the same as 92. I was going through my reciepts and noticed that I bought a 92 throttle sensor and not a 94. The engine in my truck is a 94. Just my curiosity. I guess I could do a lil research and answer that question for myself.

 

Hey guess what.....they are different. [sm=bomb.gif]At least they have different part numbers at a couple of different auto parts stores online. Ill be picking up one of those tomorrow too. But this time I'll be sure to get the right one.

 

Got the correct throttle sensor. That made a small difference.......It ran but....it was terrible. Anything over an idle and it would break up horribly.

I pulled the wire off the dist. cap for the coil. The terminal was corroded. How does this happen from sitting for a couple months? So I pulled a couple of the spark plug wires off the dist. and they were worse yet.

Made a trip to the parts store. Bought a new set of wires. Got home and pulled the cap off to clean the terminals. The terminal for the coil spun around while I was buffin it with some sand paper. So this made me take it over to the work bench where I hit it with my multi meter. Sure enough......when I push in on the bottom of the coil terminal that rides on the rotor it breaks the connection. As I wiggle it in and out it breaks and makes the connection. Hmmmmmmm........

So I went and bought a cap to replace my brand new cap. Put the wires on. Started the truck.

Then I drove it up the road and back. Then I took if for the hour and a half round trip to my parents house and she ran like a top the whole way. The engine ran smoother then I ever remember and it seems a little more snappy then before in the passing lane. But I think after that I can safely say that this truck is cured.

 

congrates

 

[sm=happy046.gif] well done!
Regards,
Greg

 

Erock, your truck still running good?

 

Yeppers

She runs like a champ. Two weeks and no problems. Hope I didnt just jinx it.

Well I did have one little issue the other day. But I know now that I need to get to a boneyard and get a new plug for the tps in my harness. But other then that its been all good.

I just finished up a sound system in it today. A pioneer head unit I had bought about a year ago, A set of Boston Acoustics componets in the front and 4x6 boston plates in the rear, a pioneer 6 disc cd changer, an 8" boston sub, and a 400 watt crossfire amp I had stored away in the garage. It still needs some tweeking but overall it sounds pretty good and should fulfill my audiophile side for now on those trips to and from work and wherever I may drive in it. It was a chore hiding everything and making certain things look as though they came in the truck, but for the most part I pulled it off beautifully.

Now I am planning on attacking a few body related ailments, a hole in a rocker panel, making some big driving lights look like they came from the factory in the front valance, and getting the last few stickers the previous owner put on it.

How bout you, ya get that a/c working yet?

 

Sound system sure sounds nice. Wish I knew something about them...

My A/C is still dead , I've been pretty busy lately with some training and work, so tommorow I'm gonna look into getting that fixed (I'll talk to some people down here, and contact his insurance company because I'm sure it was killed because of the accident, the timing is just too weird for it not to be). Other than that, replaced my starter, and she's running great.

 

Good to hear its runnin. I would look into the a/c thing.

I had a 92 cherokee, I rear ended some lady in rush hour traffic who didnt have any brake lights.

Her insurance company wrote me a check to get all the body work done and a new radiator and all that stuff. But the thing I swear never worked right afterwards.

In your case, if the condenser in front of the radiator took on some damage, it may have leaked out the freon and rendered your a/c useless. There is oil in the a/c system that serves as a lubricant for the pump. It normally runs through out the whole a/c system. If that leaked out.......smoked compressor indeed. So there is relevance to your case here since you did take on some front end damage and the condenser is right there. Your nose getting tweaked could have very well caused some issues with your a/c. Also with your truck being a 96, after awhile solder joints do get weaker, tubing sort of deteriorates. A jolt like that could have knocked a tube off or snapped something in the a/c system here towards the front of the truck.

Fortunately for you, I have a associates degree in h.v.a.c. I know these things. Just when I thought that degree would never come in handy other then not having to call a furnace guy in the middle of the night. I worked in the field for a year or so, I hated it.

Hope this helps, but other wise good to hear your truck is working. Its always a good thing.

Stereos arent that hard to figure out. I installed them professionally for a while. But theres not much of a market for it here so the place I worked closed up and since I am sort of rooted here now with a wife and a kid and a mortgage. Moving to find work in that area really isnt an option at this time.