1981 Jeep CJ7 medic can you help me?

Roger, medic, i'll try it tomarrow morning. This will be 7 times. Last time I went through this there was nothing. Nada. Blew everthing out and got fuel up the kazoo. I'll try your idea of blowing on the fuel pump line by mouth and check for bubbles. I'm guessing there won't be any. Then, i'll do what I did on time#6 and remove the lines without removing the tank and blow. Then, i'll hook a line up to a container of gas on the floor and see if it runs. I'm beginning to be aggravated. But everything that's wrong has to be something I have done. Report back tomarrow, goodnight, thanks, k

Hi medic
hooked a hose from the end of the steel line where it goes in the tank and stuck the other end in a 5 gal jug under the tank. Jeep ran just fine. Looks like my carb overhaul was good. Looks like the sending unit is goobered. I'll start taking it apart tomarrow.

Hi medic,
got the tank out around noon today and put it in the house where its warm, its about 0 in the shop. Couldn't find a whole lot wrong in there. The rubber o ring under the sending unit was a little larger than all the others in my collection so I swapped it out for new one that's more like a rectangular detail on it. The new sender didn't fit as well as the original so I put the original back in. Held the sock filter up to the light and didn't see anything in there, looked in the tank with a light and didn't see anything either, vacuumed it for a while. Applied some rtv sealant around the sending unit gasket area and put the thing back in and taped all the hoses and blew into it and it pressured up like a balloon. I don't know what else to do. The new sending unit didn't dog into its 2 little slots like the old one does. Both of them were air tight when I covered one end and blew on the other. Since the old one dogged into its slots better I used it. I blew on the flexible hose to the sending unit in the tank and it was not restricted so i'll let the sealant cure overnight and put the whole mess back in tomarrow morning. I was hoping to find something obviously wrong but the larger o ring was all I could see. I don't think that matters too much anyway other than to keep water and mud out of the tank.

I did follow the steel lines up the front and have them hooked to the right hose. I'll make sure the hose clamps are tight when I fit the flexible hose from the tank to the steel line, might even put 2 of them on that one. Made sure the hose clamps were tight when I fitted new hose on the tank this afternoon and made sure each one was either 5/16 or 1/4 inch.

Cj medevac,
got the jeep running once again. I couldn't find anything wrong with the install of the sending unit because it was ok(except for the poor fit and the oversized o ring). When I would install the tank assembly the last few inches I managed to kink the rubber fuel line. Theres no room so this time I stretched my fingers in there and made sure the pump line wasn't kinked. Pushed and pulled on it with fingers from both hands. Now I have a tail light that quit because there is a wiring harness in that area that was always in the way so that is the culprit I am sure. Drove it to Shelby to buy groceries and returned and fueled up in new era and the gas gauge functions fine. That's the 35 year old sending unit in there. So tomarrow after snow throwing and a trip to the parts store for spark plug wires and some batteries for the digital camera, i'll finally get to taking pictures and send them to you. Its below 0 here at night with blowing drifting snow so that eats a lot of the clock but I am gaining on it. Wow what a relief. My carb rebuild is fine and I managed to goober a spark plug wire the other day so i'll get them all replaced and take it from there. Thanks for following me. The old vw bus had a big inspection cover so you could look down on the flat 4 and decide what was up with it. That's what the cj needs. Such a pain to have to remove the tank for a sending unit or fuel line problem, later, k

Hi medic,
thought it was good to go until just now on a trip to get spark plug wires and fuel for the snow thrower it started coughing and spiting barely made it back to the garage. I just can't believe it. It ran very well yesterday after I got the tank in. Ran it about 12 miles to the store and back no problem. So, now, i'll go back out and replace the spark plug wires ( I broke one the other day and cobbled it back together using the motorhomes old wires. Then I have the newly rebuilt carburetor to install, haven't opened its box yet but I guess now is the time to put it on and cross my fingers.

Thanks for all the help medic, I'm giving up. Put the rebuilt carb on and new wires (that didn't fit very well, put the old wires back on) the thing shakes from side to side like it did when I had the plugs gapped wrong so I took out the plugs and gapped them to 030 and it still seems to miss on one cylinder and shakes back and forth. I've spent too much money on the thing and i'll have to park it until I can deal with it again. Thanks again, k

Hi medic,
took a good look at the distributor and its junk. When it quit running it was because the black wire to the coil broke at a copper dealy bob inside the distributor that goes to a spring thingy. And the 2 hold downs for the vacuum plate broke off so the part that holds the points was loose. So, in the morning after snow throwing(10 below zero and blowing snow) ill take the piece of junk to the local parts store and show them what happened. Should I go with the original electronic distributor? This piece of junk is from a junkyard from the 1970's I am sure.

Parts guys ordered a distributor that is same as this one, delco remy from late 60's to 74 before amc went to electronic. I'll remove the condenser and the points and install them in the new one Monday morning. The ground wire to the coil fell of inside the distributor. I bumped the engine around to tdc with the rotor facing close to #1 spark plug so hopefully the new one will go back in ok.

Previous owners removed everything electronic under the hood. So I am awaiting parts again: new distributor delco remy, i'll use the points and condenser (they only ran 200 miles or so) also ordered new wires and cap and rotor. Hope the timing is right since I left the spark plugs in and just hit the starter a bit to rotate the engine to where the rotor pointed to #1 spark plug wire and the timing mark stopped at tdc (0 on the scale). Distributor should be back in and running before noon Monday.

Hi medic,
got the new distributor in and its a runner again! Have the camera plugged into the computer so here we go

I really don't know how to mess with these pictures