Please read the whole post as these were already addressed above.

 

Time stop playing hopscotch....seriously.

You stated that there's no power to the battery...okay. Why? It's a matter of the current from the battery not having a pathto the applicable post on the starter. This means that you have a break in the wiring somewher. this break could be a physical break in the wire, a poor splice/juntion, a wire or cable that was not connected, etc. So let's try this. Disconnect your battery (both + an -) and make sure the cables aren't touching anything. Next you need to set you multimeter to read Ohms. Place one lead on the positive cable that you removed from the battery, the other lead goes to the + terminal on your starter.

What is the result?

If you don't get any reading (Infinite Resistance) then you need to remove the lead fom the starter post and physically trace the wire from the starter back towards the battery. IIRC the next place to check will be on the front side of the Power Distribution Center (PDC).

What's the result?

Let's stop right here untill you've had a chance to perform the steps listed.

 

Ok. End of discussion time. Went thru the NNS adjustment before yanking it out, and low and behold, it was out of adjustment. One little tweak and the whole thing energized. So since I was already down there, I pulled that POS and tore it apart to rebuild it. Works like a sum*****. Just gotta fine tune it to get my back up lamps on, but thats no prob since I can move it to put it on the lift to deal with brakes and the 241 linkage adjustment. Thanks to all for the input.

 

I am a new Cherokee owner and have been very happy to find this site. It has been A LOT of help. BlueXJ's recommendation for using a BFH was particularly helpful when I couldn't start my jeep (it took me a while to figure out what 'BFH' meant!). My starter died while it was parked and I was giving it a tune up and troubleshooting some CEL codes. I was so confused that I thought the CEL codes were at fault somehow. Thanks for the tip!

UPDATE - I eventually replaced the starter (in the spring of 2011).

 

For future reference, I was wondering if you can always start in neutral when the NSS stops functioning properly. Thanks.

 

i would like to know as well.. thanks

 

Nope, I couldn't start it in any gear. There's a thread that deals with jumping the NNS to get it started til you can fix it... Or just carry a wrench with you so you can adjust it while away from the workshop...

 

Hi this week i had a problem with my cherokee sport 98 stater fuse blow 3 times run for 2 days and blow again check for ground wire unbuilt the dashboard to finally found the problem i put the ignition switch on and i took a screwdriver and knock on the connection of the ignition switch i heard the starter trying to turn on i keep knoking and it stop the fuse was burn my problem was the ignition switch my jeep is 183000 kilometer so i took a the burn 30 a maxi fuse apart and weld 2 wires on the pin and put it in place run the wire in the dashboard and when i want to start i touch the 2 wires together and start the jeep after that i untouch the wire it keep running if i keep the wire together there is no fuse on the wire it will burn and the jeep too so now i have a killer for my jeep it will prevent people to stole my truck.

Fisherman from Quebec Canada

 

PS i dont know if you had found your problem yet you can check the ignition switch i have been on lot of forum and lots of people had problem with jeep ignition switch.

 

My problem was the NSS, after servicing it, it works fine (well, as fine as I adjusted it). Do a search on this forum for ignition switches, as I know a few on here were having problems with them lately...