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The Jeep sat mostly untouched from end of June to first weekend in October, when MLU's favourite Jeep Whisperer (Rob Love) laid eyes and hands upon 70-08876. For a seat at the supper table and one serving of BBQ back ribs and salad, he got the engine running! Tick another box on the work list.

The problem was the oil pump had been reinstalled incorrectly at some point, and the distributor would never fire as shown in the manuals. The firing order was off from the diagrams. He tweaked the timing a bit, and then with a mist of ether in the intake, COUGH COUGH VROOM!!! and great clouds of smelly smoke exhausted as would be expected from a long idle engine.

He inspected the rest of the vehicle for obvious mods distinctive to Central Canada, observed various things that I will need to address and a couple of fixes that need to be undone. But overall he gave me the nod of approval and wished me well.