UglyDuck

Don't know if the 99 trans is controlled by the computer or not. Thats all I was getting at.

JeepsOLot

True, I'll have to find out.

Jerry

JeepsOLot

This looks to be the tranny cooling lines from the radiator. Who does this!?



Jerry

partsguyct

An idiot

JeepsOLot

Well, the lines you see a couple of posts above are not of the tranny lines going to the radiator, they go TO the tranny!!! I swapped out the radiator, and the cooler lines were hooked up to it.

Anyway, like I said, I put a new radiator in, a used mechanical fan, and another starter. The Jeep came with 3 starters!! One I used for my CJ, one was bad, and the last one was the charm. I was able to bend the tranny lines out (and straightening out the kinks you see in the pic above without collapsing the lines) to what they were supposed to be and hooked up. Checked the oil (looks like it was pretty fresh), topped off the tranny fluid and rechecked the coolant after the radiator change.

I was able to fire her up, finally!!!



The sad thing was that I was tired at this point, and I didn't do so well in placing the phone. You can hear the engine a little, but, you mostly hear that aux electric fan, grrrr!! Found out that I probably have a missing O-ring in one of the tranny side fittings of the cooler lines, but, other then that, it was a success!!

The next things to do are get a battery (I used the CJ's battery for this test), drill out a broken bolt in the rear axle yoke, fix the leaking tranny line fitting, find nuts for the exhaust header flange, and find bolts for the shifter cable bracket on the tranny so I can hook the shifter up, and THEN, she'll be ready for a road test. I hope the tranny is ok, and it's just a TPS or other simple sensor issue, but, I have another tranny I can put in there if the need arises.

That's it for now!!

Jerry

JeepsOLot

Well, after replacing an o-ring for one of the tranny lines, extending the battery cables so I could actually install a battery in the Jeep, topped off the tranny fluid as well as the coolant, I attempted to move the Cherokee for the first time under it's own power in over 2 years!



There are still a few issues that need working out. I need to figure out why it seems to be out of time, yet, there seems to be no way of actually adjusting it. It gets to a certain RPM, and struggles to rev higher. I need to drill out a broken drive shaft strap bolt before I can do a road test to see if the tranny is good or not.

Jerry

JeepsOLot

Got the drive shaft reinstalled with all four bolts holding it in this time!! Drove it from the shop, to the house, and back to the shop. It drives ok, the engine still struggles between 1500-2000 RPM's, but, it seems the tranny is shifting ok most of the time. Found out I need to replace the CTS, it's open and my temp gauge doesn't work. I did do some painting on it, the dark red plastic body cladding was getting on my nerves!!




Need to paint the front grill area. I believe the Country Editions, or the ones I saw on Google, have the headlight bezels and grille painted body color, anyone know if this is correct?

Jerry

XJ98sport

hey, might be a bit late but this might help with the tranny thing http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1053970

dillonreid

Mines a little nit picky but it works fine for now and ill run it till its dead which with the aw4 I think it'll be a while

kennzz05

if you cant get power to the windows might want to check the wires going thru the rubber boot that you see when you open the door. door to cab wires lots of times they crack and break from the many many times the door is opened and closed i dont know that to be a common issue on that year just something to consider

found some stuff here theres a couple of posts that may help on the 4th result down from top

http://www.google.com/search?q=93+ch...hrome&ie=UTF-8

UglyDuck

My parts jeep is a Country Edition, and the grill and headlight bezels are painted body color.