BuckB91XJ

I pulled the bad starter off of the Jeep today. I removed the suspected bad solenoid and installed the good solenoid from my spare starter. I put the starter back on and the Jeep did start right up and run great. However, I made the mistake of messing with something else that wasn't broke. Well, sort of. I did still have the higher than normal idle I've had since removing and cleaning the IAC. It was still idling around 1100 RPM. So..........I checked the voltage readings on the TPS. It was slightly out of adjustment on both the 3 pin and 4 pin connectors. I adjusted it to the correct reading on the 3 pin connector and it was idling VERY high. Probably around 3000 RPM. So, everything I'd read said if you have a Jeep with an automatic transmission and it has both the 3 and 4 pin plug, you should adjust it while reading on the 4 pin connector. I adjusted it perfect by the procedures and it still idles around 3000 RPM. I checked all of my vacuum connections to make sure I didn't create a vacuum leak with all of my fixing I'd been doing. I didn't see any. I'm about to look online again and see what I can find about this condition after adjusting everything to proper specs. If any of you RENIX guys have seen this and know what I should do like pull off a battery connection or start the Jeep and disconnect the IAC or TPS to reset the ECM, please post up on this thread and let me know what I need to do to fix this way high idle issue.

BuckB91XJ

Over the past 2 days I took all the plastic flexible cover stuff off of all of my engine bay wiring from the TPS, all the way back to where the C101 connector is on the firewall. I checked all of the wiring harness that runs along the intake manifold for broken, burned, scorched or otherwise nasty looking wires or splices that looked like they might need fixed. I got a can of electrical contact cleaner and a tube of dielectric grease. I cleaned all the nastiness out of that connector and it was pretty nasty inside. Then packed it with fresh dielectric grease. I straightened that wiring harness out and put all new plastic flex tubing over it. I must say it came out pretty nice. I also cleaned and re-gapped the spark plugs and re-torqued all of my intake/exhaust manifold bolts. The motor idles fine when the motor is cold...right around 800-900 rpm. As soon as it gets up to normal operating temperature, the idle creeps up to 1100-1200 and it stays there. I'm about out of ideas. I had a couple of weird electrical problems that have been magically fixed by all of the electrical work I've been doing. My left turn signal inside arrow now works. My back lighting on my heater control now works. My digital dash clock now works. I just wish m idle would straighten out and get where it's supposed to be. Since it's doing it when the motor actually gets up to normal operating temperature, I'm thinking maybe the Coolant Temperature Sensor might be bad.

BuckB91XJ

Here are a couple of pics I snapped of the Motor and Intake Area after I straightened out the wiring rats nest. I think it came out looking pretty good. I really should have taken before and during pics. It was a mess!!

BuckB91XJ

Here's a before and after picture of the motor. I thinks it's quite a lot better since the day I brought it home.

Four play

Looking way better. Nice work

OleBlue

If it idles up while warming up, i would look for a crack in the manifold.

BuckB91XJ

Well, guys I have some good news and bad news considering project Ole Red. The good news is I scored a new job and it's still pretty close to home....and I'm still working on Airplane parts. The Place is Volant Aerospace and it's right here in Burlington, Wa. Way closer for me than having to commute down to Boeing in Everett. The bad news is I am working 10-12 hour days and 6 days a week. That is going to put a serious damper on getting Ole Red put together. I have set my goal date and I "WILL" have it ready to wheel for the Elbe trip!!!!

OleBlue

That is good news, congrats buck!

BuckB91XJ

Well, tomorrow will be my first day off since starting my new job last Monday. I already told my wife tomorrow is my day to work on my Jeep all day. I'm really looking forward to it. I will post pics of my axles with forward progress made on them.

OleBlue

Progress!! You working 6 days a week?

BuckB91XJ

Yup 10 hr. days Mon - Fri and 8 hrs. on Sat. It will pay the bills until something better comes along....

BuckB91XJ

So, for the past couple of weeks I was in work on a little work to the Duramax. I got new tires, wheel center caps and shocks. With the new Nitto Trail Grappler M/Ts and Bilstein 5100s it looks awesome and rides like a Cadillac!!!

BuckB91XJ

I drug my front axle outside and started taking it apart. I beat on it until the knuckle came loose from the carappy old balljoints and then I took the diferential cover off to have a look at my locker and gears. All still looks to be in awesome shape. Going to clean up inside the diff. housing, remove the old balljoints and reinstall the cover and install my new Alloy USA axle seals.

BuckB91XJ

Well, I got most of what I wanted to get done today, done. I got out my new Balljoint kit I recently bought from Harbor Freight and had those old nasty balljoints out in no time. It works quite nicely. I'm very happy and would recommend it to anybody. The next picture is of my new balljoints and Alloy USA axle seals that I am going to install into the axle. I got out my new new 10 ton hydraulic tool set thinking I was going to bend the driver's side axle "C" back into shape and I discovered the hydraulic ram in my kit is too big to fit inside the C. There is an optional smaller ram that I can buy separately. I guess I will be making another trip up to Harbor Freight for that before assembly. I couldn't do anything more with the ends so I concentrated on getting the differential housing cleaned out and the cover and guard fixed up. I had to do some fancy filing on my Rough Country Dif. guard as it got pretty banged up while it was on the other Jeep. By the looks of that thing it saved me from getting some nasty dents in my dif. cover. I found a couple of my dif. cover bolts got smashed pretty bad and will need replaced. So I cleaned the cover and guard and just put them back on the housing and painted them up all nice and pretty.

BuckB91XJ

I bought one of those cheap hand held propane torches and tried to use my power spreader to bend that bent "C" and failed miserably. I think it just wasn't getting hot enough. Oh well back to buying a smaller ram for the hydraulic kit.