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Old 02-07-2021, 07:24 PM
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Default 96 4.0 into 2001 isues help!

New to the site thanks for any help guys!
Here goes,, moms jeep, a while back she chunked a piston, the head turned out to be junk so I threw in a 4.0 I had that ran great from a 1996. My question is this, I'm having an intermittent missfire under load on cylinder 3 and 1. I should mention I went with the viper coil mod as the 96 head had no mount points for the coil rail and I didn't want to mess with homemade brackets anyways.
I have the same missfire with the viper coil verses coil rail so I don't believe the problem lies there. im looking hard at the injectors as my compression and fuel pressure look great. My question is this,, I'm finding thread after conflicting thread on which injector upgrade will work for this engine, some posts say 1998 to 2004 others say 1997 on down. Is the fuel pressure the only concern here or is there a mounting issue, engine difference I'm unaware of? What injector should I go with for basic stock running and who would you recommend I buy from? Thank you for your time!
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So you say you used the head on the '96 motor and guessing with the '01 exhaust manifolds.
Did you use the adapter plate?

https://jeepexhaustadapter.com/
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Originally Posted by Seand12
im looking hard at the injectors
Did you pull and clean them?
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Originally Posted by Ralph77
So you say you used the head on the '96 motor and guessing with the '01 exhaust manifolds.
Did you use the adapter plate?

https://jeepexhaustadapter.com/
I didnt notice an appreciative difference in mounting of the different exhaust and did not use an adapter plate.
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Originally Posted by Dave51
Did you pull and clean them?
not yet, weather was terrible and other than the shaterd piston she ran fine so I gambled the injectors would still be fine, #4 was the piston that went and my missfire is on cylinder 3
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