Hello
Masrers my name is Sigurdsson and am in Iceland and have a very good example of Jeep grand Cherokee limeted 1999. 4,7 power tech.
The troble is when i turn the ignition on it shows Cheak Gauges
And it starts and run fur ca 3-5 seconts and die.
All fuse's are fine.
No meters work in the dash
Pleace help

 

Do you have a device to pull codes? If not you can get Torque app for your phone and a blue tooth device that plugs into the OBDII port that will give them to you for about $30 total (in US)

 

It is starting. It is good enough to run for a few seconds too.

There are soo many different possibilities for why it will not stay on and running, but only three main things to really check for at this point.. Air, fuel, and spark are required for the engine to stay on and continue to run. One of those three things is not happening for some reason right now.

Fuel & spark would probably be the easiest of them to start out with for investigating into the issue, verifying that you are getting the propper fueling and all of the spark is happening as it should...

 

Welcome to the forum. I'm sure we can help, even with the language barrier.

The engine management system is shutting it down because something is not right. There is a little picture of a key with a circle around it and a slash though it. Is that lit? If it is, the computer isn't recognizing the key as being a valid key. The fact that it starts and runs tells me that fuel, spark, and air are right, but the electronic system won't let it stay running for security reasons or one of the sensors isn't sending the proper signal.

You should start by checking the battery cables for corrosion around the red wire that goes to the fuse/relay box under the hood. If the system isn't getting a full 12 volts it won't function properly. I suspect this because the gauges don't work. On this car, everything goes through the computer before it shows on the gauges.