What did you do to your jeep today?

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Now onto the other project I had planned this afternoon: Replacing the crispy, disintegrating wire looms in the engine bay. Here is how it looked before I started. Clearly, 13 years of heat had taken its toll on the plastic. Most looms had disintegrated entirely and others looked solid until I touched them, and then they broke into bits.

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Here's the same areas repaired.
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Very few old sections of loom survived to make it to the recycle bin. Here are a few that did.
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I have a good amount of spare loom and tape left, so next time I have the center console etc. off, I'll tidy up my own wiring projects (CB radio, 12V power plug, bluetooth, etc.). Hopefully that won't be too far in the future, because I have some auxiliary LED lighting to install on my roof rack.


Looks good. What sizes did you wind up using?
 

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I think I had 3/8 and 1/2 inch looms. There were a few places where 1/4 would have been nice, and one place where 3/4 would have worked better. But all in all, it worked out pretty nicely.
 

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My guage cluster started beeping 'Gas Cap' at me today. I took the cap off, put it back on, and it still lit up. Any ideas?
Mine did that last fall. Now I have the CEL and a small evap system leak to track down. I did replace the cap right away, but in my case there was other stuff.
 

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Firstly you should have a cam position sensor relearn preformed at a dealer or shop. Next I would replace the ignition switch, then lastly the starter.

Wait, a cam sensor relearn procedure? What is that? I've never heard of it before. Honestly I'm not convinced it isn't tied to the cam sensor somehow. The timing was too weird to have swapped in a new cam sensor the day before it decides to have some random no-crank episode. Been scouring over wiring diagrams and the cam sensor is tangentially tied into a ground in starter relay at pin 85 but it also feels like a stretch.

I did take apart the ignition switch/actuator pin to look at it and it wasn't broken. That's not to say the actual ignition switch isn't starting to go though. Or the handful of other components but with it being normal again I can't really diagnose much. I've been driving it for the last few days and so far it hasn't acted up again so far so we'll see.
 

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When I say "moving under its own power", it is entirely possibly that they dropped the chassis over a John Deere riding mower. Which would probably be an engine upgrade now that I think about it.
 

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So my husband drove mine to the grocery store early Saturday morning. When he got home, he left the windows open, then spent the rest of the day working on his motorcycle.

Sunday morning, he ran out and put the cover on the motorcycle because it looked like it was about to rain.

Monday morning, I went out to go to work - and the windows were still down on the Jeep. We got 1" of rain at our house Sunday night/Monday morning.

Wasn't that nice of him????

I got home Monday and the Jeep was in its parking spot in the shade. Front doors open. It's in the shade there from about noon on and I didn't get home until 4:30. I moved it into the sun and opened everything. He just looked at me. He was home all day and did nothing - including using the shop vac to get the water out of the door handle pockets and maybe suck up some from the carpet.

Today when I got home, I moved it into the sun and opened everything because it still smells wet.



Yep, I'm still mad.
 

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I saw a Yugo on the road today actually moving under its own power. That is not a sight I expected to see in 2020, but it's been that kind of a year.


There is one running around the Lacrosse area. Orange, in Mint condition!!
 

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I saw a Yugo on the road today actually moving under its own power. That is not a sight I expected to see in 2020, but it's been that kind of a year.
I see one on the road about 3-4 times a month, in great ( if they ever were ) shape , older guy has it and it shines like a babys behind
 

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So my husband drove mine to the grocery store early Saturday morning. When he got home, he left the windows open, then spent the rest of the day working on his motorcycle.

Sunday morning, he ran out and put the cover on the motorcycle because it looked like it was about to rain.

Monday morning, I went out to go to work - and the windows were still down on the Jeep. We got 1" of rain at our house Sunday night/Monday morning.

Wasn't that nice of him????

I got home Monday and the Jeep was in its parking spot in the shade. Front doors open. It's in the shade there from about noon on and I didn't get home until 4:30. I moved it into the sun and opened everything. He just looked at me. He was home all day and did nothing - including using the shop vac to get the water out of the door handle pockets and maybe suck up some from the carpet.

Today when I got home, I moved it into the sun and opened everything because it still smells wet.



Yep, I'm still mad.

I was waiting for the part where you ran him and his motorcycle over while moving it into the sun...
 

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you need to get the seats and the carpeting out of there pronto so you can dry the floor out. otherwise you've basically got a flood car on your hands,with all the expected disaster to come related to one.

I had to dry out a rain flooded car once... not fun if you don't to it immediately.
 

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