Recent content by Gramps

it's a long story - but here's the short version - I wanted a 4x4 subaru, my wifes had just died at 380,000 miles, we ended up at the subaru dealer looking for one, couldn't afford anything they had, they said they had a CRD liberty for 10,000, it had 80,000 miles on it. we test drove it, it...

I saw that, thanks, that light kinda had me psyched out, I did some google searching and read a few different "fixes" for it, tried a few last night and nothing worked, I'm going to mess with it again today and see if I can get it to go out, if it stays on, I guess I'm not going to worry about...

I'll take a pic of it tomorrow, but here's what it is - (see pic) 6th and reverse are real close together, I don't particularly care for it, it would be real easy to slam in into reverse when trying to go into 6th, and I hear that's a common problem, there's a stop gate or somethign like that...

not sure what I did to cause that - I put it in 4 low when I drove it up on the ramps to work on it, then disconnected the battery, when I was done fixing it, I got in the car, put it back in 2Hi, then reconnected the battery, so did I blow a sensor or solenoid or something? I know it's not in...

totally weird, I test drove the jeep, it drove fine, ran fine, but while I was test driving it, the part time light came on, at first I thought it was stuck in 4 high, but it's just the light, as long as the lever is in 2 hi, it's in 2WD with the "part time" light on, stick it in 4Hi and the...

I got the new sensor in it, is there any special reset procedures I should know about other then resetting the computer before I hook the battery back up and test drive it?

I just got the car home, I hooked up the battery and it drove fine, but it was only a mile from home. I'm going to go to the dealer to get the part because I don't have time to mail order it, my wife is driving a loaner car at the moment and we only have the loaner car for the week, so I need...

(2005 Liberty sport, 2.4L 4 cylinder gas - 6 speed manual transmission 85,000 miles on odometer) bear with me, this is a long one - I want to describe what lead up to the issue I'm having. our Liberty has had a miss to it and a lack of power on acceleration since we bought it about 6...

the Libby died today, my wife was driving home, the check engine light came on, all it would do is idle, if you tried to step on the throttle it would just puke out, she pulled over, disconnected the battery, left the ignition switch in the run position for a few minutes, then re-connected the...

I've drained and filled twice today, going to do it again, it looks like I got almost all the old coolant out of it.

I put it back together today, I drained the radiator and over flow tank, and filled it with water only, let it warm up to operating temperature and than let it run for about 30 minutes, and this is the color of coolant I'm getting out of it (see pic) it's almost straight water. I think I'll...

ok, I'll do it that way, thanks, I'll put it back together with the new thermostat and drain and fill a few times, then put the coolant in it. thanks for the tip, seems like I keep screwing up this project, and I know it ain't rocket science, and I should have known about the zerex, I knew...

I think I can get zerex at the auto parts store, (looks like NAPA sells it for about 17 bucks a gallon) I had a gallon of that stuff and gave it away about a year ago, I remember using it in my Grand Cherokee, wasn't expecting to get another jeep so soon ...ok stupid question, I'm kinda running...

so I want to use something like Zerex G-05? like here - https://valvoline.com/products/brands/zerex/antifreeze/42 I used an aftermarket thermostat from autozone, it's a 195 deg. and it has the breather hole, here's a couple of pics

I'm using dexcool