What did you do to your jeep today?

[CheddarGau]

Oil changes are so important on turbo engines - just replaced both turbo's on a 3.5 that had a pretty sparse service history, and it only had 113,000km's on it.

Lexus 3.5?

 

[CheddarGau]

Lexus 3.5?

My bad, you're at Ford, ecoboost.

 

[sota]

frequent oil changes. quality full synthetics. and not beating on it and shutting it down immediately. all will help the life of a turbo.

 

[Johnny O]

Yeah, but their complaints/returns procedure's in Chinese!

That is what google translate is for. Online I can read over 100 languages.

 

[Johnny O]

Really planned to do my battery subsystems upgrade this morning, but we have had freezing fog for the past week. So I drank coffee and scoured the web for fairly priced Jeep stuff.

Kind of shell shocked how vendors raised their prices an average of 600% over the last six months. That isn't inflation, it's gouging.

 

[Noclutch]

Working on the 04.Kj head gasket today. I have a question has anyone tried this trick with success. Were you can loosen the tension from the chain without having to remove the front timing cover. The guy initially guided a rod from the top of the head slips it in the tensioner and releases the tension. video can be hard to follow but it’s interesting nonetheless.

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[KJowner]

Working on the 04.Kj head gasket today. I have a question has anyone tried this trick with success. Were you can loosen the tension from the chain without having to remove the front timing cover. The guy initially guided a rod from the top of the head slips it in the tensioner and releases the tension. video can be hard to follow but it’s interesting nonetheless.

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I've done similar on a BMW mini engine.

 

[lfhoward]

I noticed my left front blinker was going out intermittently causing hyper flashing. Today I replaced the bulb, but the problem remains. I am thinking a bad ground, since both the marker light and blinker are both non-functional much of the time. I need to break out my multimeter.

 

[Deb'nKJ]

That is what google translate is for. Online I can read over 100 languages.

Now Google is something I avoid like the plague (except for YT - because there really is no alternative) but like everything else it does there are alternatives, any number of on-line translation sites - & they're fine for foreign language posts, even even chunks of text but not for something like fields/boxes on a website, which you might not be able to copy'n'paste. Nah, not for me, far to much like hard work!

 

[wheeee32]

Changed both upper and lower driver's side ball joints, replaced hardware on the front sway bar links, u-joints, and the rear upper bump stops. Will replace the oil after a few thousand more miles.

 

[Johnny O]

I noticed my left front blinker was going out intermittently causing hyper flashing. Today I replaced the bulb, but the problem remains. I am thinking a bad ground, since both the marker light and blinker are both non-functional much of the time. I need to break out my multimeter.

Might need to top off the blinker fluid…

 

[lfhoward]

Might need to top off the blinker fluid…

Must be running low!

 

[derekj]

My bad, you're at Ford, ecoboost.

Yup - ecoboom

 

[Johnny O]

Now Google is something I avoid like the plague (except for YT - because there really is no alternative) but like everything else it does there are alternatives, any number of on-line translation sites - & they're fine for foreign language posts, even even chunks of text but not for something like fields/boxes on a website, which you might not be able to copy'n'paste. Nah, not for me, far to much like hard work!

Yep I avoid google too, save for certain web tools like translate and google scholar but always via Brave browser.

 

[lfhoward]

Might need to top off the blinker fluid…

Verified bad ground, and I eliminated the socket or bulb as the issue.

There are two possible ground connection locations behind the drivers headlight that the bad wire could potentially go to, and both are rusted solid (broke my 10 mm socket). One is located under the front clip support beneath the headlight area, and is nearly inaccessible without major surgery.

How janky would it be to run my own ground from that side marker light to the chassis or to the negative battery post? Are there any risks in doing so? This one circuit is probably just the tip of the iceberg though, and others may be going to fail soon from the same deteriorating chassis grounding points.

Edit: The repair manual shows ground location G108 for the turn signal ground. The other one, G107, goes back to the TIPM. Thus, my issue is probably at G108, behind the drivers side headlight and below the battery tray. That’s the one that busted my 10 mm socket and is not budging.

 

[sota]

not janky at all, although I'd probably find some other point to ground to on the chassis, and NOT home run back to the battery.

I fought for months with the A/C not working in my mom's PT Cruiser. turned out the ground for pressure switch loop was bad, somehow. I just snipped it and ground it to a stud nearby, and everything started working again.

 

[lfhoward]

This is the same issue as I am having, except the location of the ground point is different on a JK than a Liberty. But good to see a fix that is easy to do (if I can get the bolt out).

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[Johnny O]

Verified bad ground, and I eliminated the socket or bulb as the issue.

There are two possible ground connection locations behind the drivers headlight that the bad wire could potentially go to, and both are rusted solid (broke my 10 mm socket). One is located under the front clip support beneath the headlight area, and is nearly inaccessible without major surgery.

How janky would it be to run my own ground from that side marker light to the chassis or to the negative battery post? Are there any risks in doing so? This one circuit is probably just the tip of the iceberg though, and others may be going to fail soon from the same deteriorating chassis grounding points.

Edit: The repair manual shows ground location G108 for the turn signal ground. The other one, G107, goes back to the TIPM. Thus, my issue is probably at G108, behind the drivers side headlight and below the battery tray. That’s the one that busted my 10 mm socket and is not budging.

Been there done that. I noticed on Bert and the other KJ that occasionally the aging plastic melted a little bit on the contact rings, making a frustrating intermittent fault. If you do run your own ground make sure to disconnect the original.

 

[turblediesel]

Might need to top off the blinker fluid…

Only use HOAT blinker fluid or it'll stop blinking at all...

 

[lfhoward]

I only use Mopar HOAT blinker fluid. Only the best for my KK!