What did you do to your jeep today?

[CherokeeLiberty]

I tried putting new tires on today, but it turns out Mercury Mariner/Ford Escape wheels have a smaller bore than is needed on the Liberties. So, I’ll have to arrange a swap at a shop after all. These are the tires that we had just put on my wife’s car before she totaled it this winter.

 

[Surf4evers]

What exhaust did you get?

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[lfhoward]

Wouldn’t it be great to have working air conditioning? 97°F here today…

 

[eric1514]

Wouldn’t it be great to have working air conditioning? 97°F here today…

I've got one. It's the rest of the Jeep that's not working.

 

[CherokeeLiberty]

I pumped my jeep’s system full of A/C recharge again. I used a stop-leak product this time around. The jeep’s got 260k miles on it, so I just want it to work.

 

[lfhoward]

I pumped my jeep’s system full of A/C recharge again. I used a stop-leak product this time around. The jeep’s got 260k miles on it, so I just want it to work.

Tried that last summer and no dice. Glad it works in yours!

 

[eric1514]

The shops hate that stop-leak stuff and will sometimes refuse to work on your A/C if you admit to using it. They say it messes up their equipment. Just sayin'.

 

[lfhoward]

Once an AC system has been empty for a long time, and potentially exposed to outside humidity, does the whole thing have to be replaced? It’s been non functional for more than 2 years and I don’t know where the leak is.

 

[eric1514]

Once an AC system has been empty for a long time, and potentially exposed to outside humidity, does the whole thing have to be replaced? It’s been non functional for more than 2 years and I don’t know where the leak is.

I would think not. They would just pull a vacuum on it to remove anything in there, including moisture, and go from there. Everything is expensive, though. Evacuating and recharging was $260 on my Silverado last week that had lost enough coolant in 23 years to keep it from running the compressor. No new parts, just coolant and now it works.

 

[derekj]

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Kind of been on a spree the past couple of days. The coopers are all dated 2014, but surprisingly don't have any signs of rot. I don't plan on using them but I can see me rolling around on them on the project Jeep for a little while if I felt like it. The other four are dynapro tires that are even older. The black wheel is just Plasti dip. The unmounted one however has a large bend and a crack on the back lip. So it's probably scrap. Or, I'll turn it into a hose reel or something.

i can't find a set of these to save my life and you might have 3 sets? want to send a set to Canada?

 

[derekj]

Once an AC system has been empty for a long time, and potentially exposed to outside humidity, does the whole thing have to be replaced? It’s been non functional for more than 2 years and I don’t know where the leak is.

As long as you don't have a line that is completely open to the environment, applying vacuum to the system should get all the moisture out of it. Then the shop will add a UV dye into the system that will help trace down the leak.

If someone has used those a/c recharge kits that you buy at auto parts stores we will not work on their car - those kits do not use R134 and will contaminate the refrigerant in the machine.

 

[sota]

i can't find a set of these to save my life and you might have 3 sets? want to send a set to Canada?

I mean, if you want to pay the freight we could probably arrange something. I have no idea about any of that though. And you're about as far away as you could possibly be from me.

 

[derekj]

I mean, if you want to pay the freight we could probably arrange something. I have no idea about any of that though. And you're about as far away as you could possibly be from me.

It would be way too much to ship up here - and the exchange rate is pretty bad right now.

 

[derekj]

Rolled 300km's this weekend!

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[eric1514]

I put new plugs and coils in. I don’t know when the plugs had been changed last but only 1 of 6 had a center electrode. I’m surprised it ran at all and two days ago, it didn’t.

I’ve only owned this Jeep since February and I just assumed the 3.7 was crude and that combined with it having 172k miles on it meant that it was not going to idle or run very smoothly. Wrong. That made a world of difference. It’s so nice now. I’m jazzed.

 

[rustydread777]

My jeep was missing these. Got them in the mail today and opened them up, looked them over and staged my stuff to install them this weekend

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[CherokeeLiberty]

I drove it for the first time in a few weeks. I also put fresh gas in it. The last fill was 4/20 at $3.609/gal and today was $4.159/gal. It felt good to take it out.

 

[sota]

It would be way too much to ship up here - and the exchange rate is pretty bad right now.

yea I know.

 

[rustydread777]

Oil change, cleaned 24 years of skid plate grime, and recovery hooks installed. Next week, fuel injector rebuild and spark plugs.

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[nohitter64]

I had the evap canister replaced a couple years ago. Since then it throws these random errors periodically, then they just go away. The rub is that every time it happens you can't help but wonder if this time it really means it...

I cracked the evap hose connection on top of the fuel tank. We put in a shunt and glued it together. Every now and then when I get the gas cap code, I get the that "is this it" feeling thinking it snapped again...then it magically goes away