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I have been fighting a vibration for the last two winters.
Replaced driveshaft Ujoints and even pulled the front shaft for a while.
Nothing helped.
After a long drive last night I was pissed.
Today I pulled the old stock wheels and tires out of the bush and installed.
FIXED!! (looks like crap)
First time in 35 years I have had a perfectly good set of tires vibrate so badly when almost new.
They are 3 years old now but we only drive it 5 months of the year in the winter so really only 1.5 years on them and not many miles since we use my truck for longer trips.
They are 31 X 10.5 Goodyear Duratrac's anyone else have this problem?
I was running them at 32 PSI and dropped them to 28 but no help.
They are really lumpy when rolling up to a stop sign, like cogging.
Did you happen to buy the tires at a dealer or reputable shop? Sometimes a good shop will warranty or swap out If out of warranty. A company like good year cares a lot about reputation so you could get lucky.
I dont happen to run good years though, so no personal experience.
Also, I just joined the tdi swapped trucks Facebook page. I’ve got some money coming soon and I’m heavily considering swapping my jeep. My big concern is my jeep is an 01 with an automatic. I’d love a 5 speed swap but apparently the later year xj’s are tough to 5 speed swap in general. If I could completely do away with the factory jeep computer that would be lovely. Any chance of keeping a Speedo and tach or any other factory gauges without using the factory computer?
Local Goodyear (Fountain tire) is a BIG place doing lots of commercial trucks and when I called and VERY polity explained my problem he said "all the guys here run Duratacs with no problem, We can Road balance them for $48 per tire"
So for $200 they will re-balance them for me.
I have BFG's on all the rest of our personal and fleet trucks and would never buy Goodyear again.
You will love a TDI swap especially if you throw a bit more power at the engine. I get a grin whenever my wife lets me drive it.
Should be no problem doing the manual swap and keep the ECU. The ecu is then just running the dash, I had no problem with my 2000.
The TDI is a stand alone ECU so it does not have to talk to the Jeep at all.
Local Goodyear (Fountain tire) is a BIG place doing lots of commercial trucks and when I called and VERY polity explained my problem he said "all the guys here run Duratacs with no problem, We can Road balance them for $48 per tire"
So for $200 they will re-balance them for me.
I have BFG's on all the rest of our personal and fleet trucks and would never buy Goodyear again.
You will love a TDI swap especially if you throw a bit more power at the engine. I get a grin whenever my wife lets me drive it.
Should be no problem doing the manual swap and keep the ECU. The ecu is then just running the dash, I had no problem with my 2000.
The TDI is a stand alone ECU so it does not have to talk to the Jeep at all.
Thanks for the info. What about Calling good year directly? Explain that you’re a business owner and this is your first experience with the tires. Could be worth a shot.
Does anyone have any experience with using the signal from high beams to turn on driving lights?
My 2000 has daytime running lights which uses high beams at low power so that complicates things a bit.
In the old days I could just pull 12V off the high beam wire and run a relay with that. Now the daytime running lights have enough voltage to vibrate the relay. Is there another place to pickup the high beam signal?
Does anyone have any experience with using the signal from high beams to turn on driving lights?
My 2000 has daytime running lights which uses high beams at low power so that complicates things a bit.
In the old days I could just pull 12V off the high beam wire and run a relay with that. Now the daytime running lights have enough voltage to vibrate the relay. Is there another place to pickup the high beam signal?
Could you pick it up off the switch in the column maybe? I'd assume the half power DRL wouldn't mess with that.
Added LED's to both Jeeps last week. I had installed Hella headlights with Silver star bulbs when I built the XJ but they were still not that great on our dark country roads.
The LED's in the bumper were first a couple of months ago but the LED Headlights made such a big difference I wish I had done them last winter.
both my 98s driving lights are triggered by high beam circuit, i use a solenoid instead of relay and i have a switch on the dash so i can just use headlight highbeams in town
Yes back in the day I used to do the same thing but both these Jeeps have Daytime Running Lights which puts the high beams on at half power during the day. Cant use the high beam signal anymore, maybe a voltage sensitive relay would be the solution.
Now with the LED headlights the bumper lights are not as important.
Your two Jeeps lights remind me of my long ago rally days.
Yes back in the day I used to do the same thing but both these Jeeps have Daytime Running Lights which puts the high beams on at half power during the day. Cant use the high beam signal anymore, maybe a voltage sensitive relay would be the solution.
Now with the LED headlights the bumper lights are not as important.
Your two Jeeps lights remind me of my long ago rally days.
i retrofitted 100w hids into the lightforces...theyre retarded bright....100km/h bright but i live 15km up a logging road, so they get used
the led lights on the black one (wifes) are bright but only half the distance bright, but way cheaper to
both my jeeps are DRL as well....if i have the jeep headlights off and my driving light switch on and pull my high beam stalk, i get solenoid chatter
solution- turn on headlights, everything works...
headlights on low and driving light switch off,
headlights on low and driving light switch on (waiting for signal),
headlights on high and driving light switch off
headlights on high and driving light switch on.
not aware of drl changes between 98 and 00
if you put your headlight switch on, doesnt that override the drl signal to the high beams? seems to solve mine
if it doesnt, try tapping into the wire that lights up the high beam light on your dash
Yes turning on the headlights makes it work OK but you have to turn the driving lights off manually during the day.
I have a 150 amp Voltage sensing relay VSR coming which will not energize below 12.8V. I think that will solve my problem.
It should not allow the driving lights to come on during the day but then allow them to come on with high beams, I hope.
So wife, kid and Jeep came home via a tow truck today. Looks like front diff locked up at highway speed and took out the whole yoke on the end of the drivers side axle.
Is there a way to pull the drive shaft and axles and just run it in 2WD till I get time to fix??
So wife, kid and Jeep came home via a tow truck today. Looks like front diff locked up at highway speed and took out the whole yoke on the end of the drivers side axle.
Is there a way to pull the drive shaft and axles and just run it in 2WD till I get time to fix??
Yes, you can pull just the inner axle shafts and leave the stubs in the wheel bearings. MAKE SURE TO PUT THE STUBS IN THE WHEEL BEARINGS that is what holds the wheel bearings together. 2wd Cherokees have the same wheel bearings with little stub shafts in them, but just taking the u joint out of the axleshafts you have will work fine.
Thanks, I wondered about that. I have a 99 Dakota and when I pulled the diff and axles I did not replace the stubs and did not get very far before the wheels went wobbly.
On my 08 Dakota the unit bearing is the same as a 2WD truck and does not need the stubs to hold it together so I did not know what the Jeep was like.
I should get it apart Sat and see what the carnage is.
So while I have the Jeep off the road to rebuild the front end I pulled the engine and trans to do a few updates.
The rattly old NV3550 was driving me crazy as it rattles louder than the TDI at a stop light. They are nick named "can of marbles" for a reason. Maybe not bad behind the stock 4L gas but behind the little 4 cylinder diesel its bad.
Bought one of the brand new AX15's from Novak and its pretty. I had an AX15 behind the 2.8L Isuzu diesel in my 93 Grand Cherokee for 14 years with no problems.
Finally getting the engine and new trans back into the Jeep.
Did a stage 2 cam and timing belt while it was out.
Sure nice to be able to drop the engine/trans in as an assembly.
