Jump gone bad
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Jump gone bad
So I let my friend us my 96 xj. The battery went dead and he tried to jump it. He crossed the wires and now there is no power what so ever in the jeep!!! I have no idea what to check or do any help would be great.
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Year: 1997
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0
Probably need a new battery. Pull it and have it tested at any auto store... I'm sure it's fried. Possibly fuses, relays, etc...
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hope its the battery. NOT the PCM computer.
Is it difficult to see + or - on the battery? Wow.
Is it difficult to see + or - on the battery? Wow.
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So I had a couple minutes late-night and took a test light to the go fuses in the fuse box under the hood and the big fuses have power on both sides but that's as far as I got
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Year: 1998
Model: Cherokee (XJ)
Engine: 4.0L
definetly a blown fuse somewhere. keep looking. Although the possibility of having fried the PCM is possible... that would not be the cause of not having power elsewhere.
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The fuseable link on the front of the power distribution center needs to be checked. A backwards jump start can take that out, which hopefully it did, because that helps to protect the upstream components (relays, fuses, computer).
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