Recent content by KJowner

If you are in Europe then get the 2.8 CRD, loads of power and double the MPG of the V6.

Don't be tempted with engine rebuild in a tin, all it does is block all the cooling passages.

Morning and welcome. 1 yes 2 the nice ready-made one is from a Dodge Ram, I'm looking at modifying the original pickup assembly with a VW lift pump, more available in Europe and cheaper. If you look on here and lost jeeps you will see lots of posts on lift pumps.

Looks like you may have found it.

My BMW did! That's why I assumed the Jeep had one too, I forgot it was a mechanical interlock.

Oh! I thought it had a switch in there as well!!

Jokes aside modern(ish) cars with immobilisers are pretty hard to steal, in the UK most of them are stolen by stealing the keys first and then only seriously valuable stuff gets taken as a rule, there are code grabbers for keyless cars but the jeep has an imbedded chip so the immobiliser won't...

Just pull the relay and stick it in your pocket ;-)

Plenty of grease in the cv joint? Maybe worth popping the boot and adding more to see if it helps.

Maybe but having steel wheels here on salty roads means regular painting and I'm lazy!

The chirp is probably a pulley bearing or something on the belt drive. The fact the wires make no difference is strange, the only time I've seen temperature an issue is for crank angle sensors, usually they die when they get hot and come back to life when they cool down. I wonder if you have a...

This has come up before, I'm sure you can use the dipstick from a scrap KJ

For the effort involved I'd get a set of alloys

Duel mass flywheel would be my guess, do you get a squeak when you stop the engine or on tickover? Mine has been doing it for a while.

It might be worth taking the hit on postage and buying one from ebay.uk Edit- why do you need one? If yours is just warped then a machine shop can skim it flat fairly cheaply.