What did you do to your jeep today?

[Brendon Holt]

The Jeep is healing itself. The chain tensioner rattle has gone from being an all the time sound when the engine oil is hot to being a little bit of noise when the engine oil reaches some magical temperature and then going away completely. I've been doing shorter OCI's to try and clean out the engine and now I'm wondering if some of the problem is/was sludge impeding oil travel. I'm tentatively watching what happens and driving it pretty sparingly until I figure out what I'm doing.

 

[KJowner]

https://www.facebook.com/share/19rjqFBH3k/ not mine, but should have the desired gear ratio.

2.4 with an NSG?? I thought they were all 5 speed.

 

[KJowner]

The Jeep is healing itself. The chain tensioner rattle has gone from being an all the time sound when the engine oil is hot to being a little bit of noise when the engine oil reaches some magical temperature and then going away completely. I've been doing shorter OCI's to try and clean out the engine and now I'm wondering if some of the problem is/was sludge impeding oil travel. I'm tentatively watching what happens and driving it pretty sparingly until I figure out what I'm doing.

A snapped chain will do a lot of damage...
I'd still plan on replacing the lot.

 

[Brendon Holt]

A snapped chain will do a lot of damage...
I'd still plan on replacing the lot.

I mean even if it doesn't snap it can still screw with the timing if it's being run without tension, so either way the ultimate solution is to dig in to it to make sure everything is good

 

[CheddarGau]

I mean even if it doesn't snap it can still screw with the timing if it's being run without tension, so either way the ultimate solution is to dig in to it to make sure everything is good

Just remember timing chains are most likely to jump sprockets on deceleration. Just don't do any big engine braking and it's less likely to skip if you tensioner isn't good or you have poor oil flow.

 

[DadOSix]

Looks like the 06 pictured will spend a few hours in the garage this week / end. He has not had a good run for a few weeks and I went on some errands today. His last adventure was dropping the right front ball joint at school with my son. Today, he decided it would be great sport to lock up the right front caliper and see how much he could emulate a semi with hot brakes.

So, I am minus a few MM of pad, and a wheel hub cover was a casualty. Seems if you get the hub hot enough the plastic will melt away from the mounting holes.

Fun!!

 

[lfhoward]

Turns out the power steering rack’s bushings had disintegrated. This fragment was not from the front differential, but from the rack and pinion.

This is really close to what happened on the Liberty:

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[profdlp]

Took the rear passenger door apart due to a dropped window. It was nice yesterday and I had the Jeep out of the garage to work on something else in there. Figured I would let it sit in the nice sunshine with all four windows down to get some fresh air in there. Four went down but only three went back up...

So I took it apart to make sure I knew what I needed to get to replace the regulator. Try as I might I couldn't get the window to close to more than an inch from the top. So I tried prying the (supposedly) broken clip back to allow the window to clear it, at which point it snapped right back into place and decided to work right again.

So I got off scot free! Hahaha!

Except that now the handle on the inside of that door doesn't work so you have to slide across the seat and go out the driver's side, plus I managed to gouge a finger on the sheet metal. (My Jeep requires a blood sacrifice every time I work on it. I think that is in Leviticus somewhere...)

And it just occurred to me that perhaps I somehow flipped that child safety switch gizmo, so maybe I ought to go back out to the garage.

Howard Cosell mode activated:

He. Could. Go. All. The. Way.

 

[seafish]

^^^ I’ve done that silly thing with the child safety lock before too.

 

[KJowner]

Did you remember to reattach the door handle rod?

 

[seafish]

BTW I am fairly sure that you’ll find the “blood sacrifice” requirement in the fine print of your Jeeps original purchase documents.

 

[profdlp]

^^^ I’ve done that silly thing with the child safety lock before too.

That was it! I was moving the linkages around manually and I think that is what engaged the child lock. Now that I think about it I believe the same thing happened when I was installing speakers in the Jeep some years back.

Did you remember to reattach the door handle rod?

Yes. It was such a pain getting the thing off that it at least had the virtue of reminding me to check it when I was putting everything back together.

 

[profdlp]

BTW I am fairly sure that you’ll find the “blood sacrifice” requirement in the fine print of your Jeeps original purchase documents.

I bought mine used so I guess I never got a chance to see that.

 

[KJowner]

That was it! I was moving the linkages around manually and I think that is what engaged the child lock. Now that I think about it I believe the same thing happened when I was installing speakers in the Jeep some years back.


Yes. It was such a pain getting the thing off that it at least had the virtue of reminding me to check it when I was putting everything back together.

I didn't last time I had the door in bits! Lol

 

[JustSumDad]

Today- wheel alignment
last weekend... New front wheel bearings, lower ball joints, upper control arms.

a few weeks b4 that, replaced all suspension springs - 1.5" lift over stock, installed fuel tank skid from a renegade.

A few weeks from now - install limited slip diff from same renegade salvage and new rear brakes at the same time.

Its a jeep thing...

 

[CheddarGau]

Today- wheel alignment
last weekend... New front wheel bearings, lower ball joints, upper control arms.

a few weeks b4 that, replaced all suspension springs - 1.5" lift over stock, installed fuel tank skid from a renegade.

A few weeks from now - install limited slip diff from same renegade salvage and new rear brakes at the same time.

Its a jeep thing...

Rebuild the lsd with new clutches before you put it in.

 

[lfhoward]

New steering rack bushings today from Creative Steel… WOW what a difference! My original R&P bushings were not only crappy, they completely disintegrated on Monday. It was a scary drive to work! Now everything is solid and it feels like a new Jeep!

New Moog tie rods (inner and outer) and an alignment are in Jeepy’s future.

 

[ikuo78]

It's finally reached 100,000km.
It took 5 and a half years since I bought the one with 57,000km on it.
I only use it on weekends so the mileage hasn't increased at all.

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[CherokeeLiberty]

I pulled a partially uprooted stump out with it today. 4Low is a wonderful thing.

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[CheddarGau]

Went down Chehalis FSR with thr boys