No problem! Hope it helps.

 

Thanks for the image and the website. I sent a message to jeep hopefully they can help, I'll take a little tomorrow too to see if I can figure things out on my own. Thanks again!

 

Is any grease "bad" to use on our jeeps. I got some lucas x-tra heavy duty grease and some "green grease" and the reason i was asking is that they are more geared to heavy duty and irregular maintenance. Or is it snake oil and jeeps just need any grease you throw in them?

 

NLGI #2 rated GC-WB and you can rest easy. Grease requirements on these things are not insane. Some of the soya-based green greases are actually really good, and 100% domestically produced. If I can find a local source for Plews & Edelmann UltraLube I hope to use their stuff on anything that drives over my feilds at the minimum (gear oil too).

If you have NLGI #1 or just GC or just WB then you have to pay attention. Not much point considering the price difference and how much grease these things need.

 

Sounds like blower motor resistor. Antiquated design that is problematic, but easy to change. However, be prepared for melted wires and plug, which is also easy fix. Located under passenger side glove box.

 

salad what would you say the grease interval is? 1 year? Every 10k miles?

 

Every 7500 miles and/or with each oil change.

Don't put so much in that you blow the boots off the joints.

Also, did you know that the 2 u-joints at the rear of your front drive shaft are lubable? Requires a grease needle and usually disconnecting the driveshaft from the transfer case and pulling it down.

 

A couple xj newbie questions:


1) Front wheel bearings: are these a sealed unit with the hub ??? I read the tech write-up about replacing front axle u-joints and it doesn't say anything about servicing the bearings while it is apart. I'm only familiar with the older full size chevy/ford etc axles with the locking hubs, where you have to take the double nuts and bearings out to get to the hollow spindle and axle.


2) Rear axle: I looked at one of the reference charts and thought I must have a D35, but it has a threaded fill plug (3/8" square hole for socket drive) so it must a D30 or D44, right ???

 

The front bearings are not serviceable.

Are u talking about front axle or rear? Both Dana 35 and Chrysler 8.25 used rubber plug.

If u were talking about the front. It is Dana 30 but if u were talking about the rear axle that had threaded plug then it's Dana 44

 

So then I must have a D44 REAR AXLE, then. The Jeep does have a trailer package (receiver/ball mount/harness/adapter).

 

OR an aftermarket differential cover.

 

^^ This is true, but 1988 was still a year when the D44 was shipped.

Also, laughing about the "2006 Chevy HHR "

 

I replaced my flexplate this week. Got the transmission back in and everything connected. When we went to start the Jeep it made a loud click. Did this a few times and it finally turned over and started. Now it starts up perfectly fine. It runs just like normal, but after a few minutes a fairly loud grinding noise is heard right at the flexplate.

I did make the mistake of leaving my starter out in the rain during this because I forgot it was out. So it rained pretty hard and then the starter sat outside for two days. Could the starter be my grinding issue? Or is it something I missed or did?

1999 Cherokee, 4.0, AW4

 

Not a bad little car really, as long as you always drive on dry pavement. Great gas mileage, handy seat/cargo configuration, but the 215/50R17 ghetto tires/wheels are ridiculous IMO. We almost traded it for the XJ but decided to hang on to it for a while until we see how the Jeep works out. Might sell it directly and/or trade it for a mid-1990s Buick sedan for a road car


Okay - now I have another curious XJ tech question: I've been reading the Renix fuel injection manual, and is the reason that the engine takes several seconds to start because the ECU needs one or more rotations just to find its place using the CPS and Sync signal



(weird: I was actually imagining what the source code might look like to implement this logic in C/C++ )

 

guessing based on what you wrote: the loud click is probably the starter solenoid engaging but not spinning the starter motor, and the grinding is probably the starter drive gear rubbing on the flexplate because its not retracting when solenoid is deactivated. probably needs a new starter motor.