bigfltruck

Take the tire with the plug to a shop and have it patched then you won't have to buy a tire.

ItsPhelpsy

Went out on my the lake today with the Jeep and posed for a few pictures for you guys.
Looks like I need to do a little trimming but other than that I think its pretty good for a (pretty sure because I don't see anything that looks like a suspension lift) body lift. But that is about all I could do without making something to flex on. 'Tis the life of a Floridian.

ItsPhelpsy

I ended up just getting slime until I can sell my fourwheeler for tire money.

ItsPhelpsy

Well, today I was driving around on the lake with my mom because I was bored. It was all going smoothly then the engine cut off. It wasn't a sputter off like when you run out of gas, but it was a immediate shut off. Luckily we were close to her friends house who is a mechanic. So we walked up to his house and got some gas because at the time we thought it was the gas. So after adding gas it still didn't crank up. So he checked to see if it was firing and it wasn't. So he went and got his truck and pulled us to his house. When we got there, he started mechanic-ing and looking for the problem. He thought it was the coil. So he took us back to my house and we pulled the coil out of the parts jeep. We went back to his house and replaced it and it still didn't fire. He started looking around again and the next time we tried starting it we heard a buzzing noise. He looked in the fuse box and it was coming from the ASD fuse. Then we heard ANOTHER buzzing noise coming from the opposite side of the engine compartment. We looked around it and seemed to be coming from a fuse looking thing that he said was the idle control or something. So I decided to look it up on my phone because he didn't know what to do so I searched about the ASD fuse and it turns out it might have had something to do with the crankshaft positioning sensor. So after we found that he gave it a look but didn't know what to do so tomorrow after school I have to go get a manual for it so he can find out how to test it because of all the books he had he didn't have one on Jeeps.

Have any of you ran into this problem before?

ItsPhelpsy

Dear people of Cherokee Forums,

If you have read any of my build thread, you will know that my jeep cut off a few days ago and wouldn't start. We took it to my moms friends who is a mechanic and he changed the coil thinking that was the problem, it still didn't work. I did some searching on the interwebs and found that it might have been the Crankshaft positioning sensor. So we ordered a new one, and he changed the sensors. The jeep still doesn't run. We have no clue where to go from here. I'm thinking the engine just died on us. 317k miles but was running strong until it cut off. So, if any of you have ever had this problem please let me know what you had to do or if you just think I should change the engine out with the one from my parts jeep.
Thanks,
ItsPhelpsy

jhampton

My old one did the same thing check all of your sensors, check the coil and even have a shop plug it into a computer. You have a lot of miles on it so may not be bad for a swap but when it's out ( new one ) put a gasket kit in at least If you have the money do a rebuild. Then you have a new engine

TN12valve

There is no body lift on your Cherokee... Cherokees are Unibody vehicles which means that the "frame" and the "body" are one piece.

If i had to guess, i would say that it has a 3'' lift of some sorts... Pictures of all suspension componets would help us determine what you have going on under there.

TN12valve

Also, to help with your shut off question... You may need to clean your NSS (neutral safety switch) on the transmission.

Try to cycle the gear lever thru the gears slowly, and then faster and try to crank it over in NEUTRAL.

Do a search on this site about the NSS and see what you come up with. You do not need to buy a new one. They are really easy to clean.

ItsPhelpsy

Changed the coil between the parts jeep and my jeep. And my moms mechanic friend plugged it into a computer and there is a wiring problem somewhere (thats what he said at least) and the computer isn't reading anything.

ItsPhelpsy

My mom seems set on getting the engine changed out. I think its because we would have to get a loan from her sister I would have to pay back (Obviously) and it would teach me "responsibility" and all that other good stuff. So I guess engine replacement it is. And on your other comment, I figured that out later on... I'm a little slow to those kind of things. My redneck friends all said it was a body lift so I just went with that.

And before you go and think I'm just a 17 year old irresponsible kid, I'm really not. My parents just don't think I'm responsible.

NeilVMax

That is honestly not too shabby for $700. Good luck with it!

jhampton

Well show em your responsible man keep plugging away

ItsPhelpsy

I'm going to try to take it to my mechanic friend. He has two jeeps he has been working on. I'm going to see what he has to say about this.

ItsPhelpsy

Well, I haven't posted in a while. But I have done my fair share of lurking over the past week or two. I have a bookmark folder full of things I want to (eventually) do to my jeep. But first of all, a little update for you guys. We went and got my jeep loaded and taken to a mechanic last thursday. He was too busy to look at it until tuesday, but he got it up on the lift and is (hopefully) trying to get it fixed for me. He is a family friend so I think he will do me good. I have been trying to find a job and not take the easy way out and work with my dad. But I haven't had any luck. I've been sticking to school. So there isn't much of a jeep fund that I'm working on. I need new tires but I haven't got enough money to but mt/r's or KM2's or anything real good like that. But I went to walmart the other day and saw they had Wrangler Authority's. I know they aren't great tires but they are in the price range. Such is the life of living in a small town with way too many people my age taking the jobs.

AirborneDeth

I would look at General Grabber AT 2's. They are reasonably priced. Look at treadepot.com. I have ordered several sets of tires from them, two of which have been the AT 2's.

Another tire I would recommend would be the Good Year Wrangler Duratracs. They are a bit more expensive though. Good luck.