Episode 1 chases down a chronic engine knocking that has come and gone for 50,000 miles. Road Ready With Moses Ludel is now a channel at YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/roadreadywithmosesludel
Injector and Top Engine Cleaning to Eliminate Ping and Carbon Knock
Season One, Episodes 1 and 2 of Road Ready took us from identifying an engine knock (Episode 1) to tackling the knock in Episode 2. Cleaning the fuel injectors and upper cylinder cleaning in Episode 2 involved niche tools and products used to clean carbon from intake and exhaust ports, valves, piston crowns and combustion chambers. Discover the surprising results and conclusions.
Episode 2 of Season 1 involves niche tools and upper cylinder cleaning methods that include flushing the fuel injectors. See the surprising conclusion to this work.
Troubleshooting the engine noise began with Episode 1. We isolated the noise to the area of #5 cylinder on the inline 4.0L Jeep six. Episode 2 aims at eliminating the knock.