about two months ago i cut in a hood vent on the drivers side. i had been real careful about covering it when it would rain. well, last week it rained for 5 days straight and on about the fourth day i realized i hadn't covered the vent. a few days later i get in the jeep for a run to get groceries. durn thing started shifting goofy and then stuck in first gear. i googled the issue and seems the tps don't like water. so i made this.

btw, new tps & tranny shifting like new.

made from a paper thin sheet of aluminum. drill bit and scissors. rtv between the layers.

 

might wanna have a little more write up or it will get moved

 

yea, i was kinda wondering of it should go in advanced tech or fab. i put it here cuz..... i fabbed it.

more notes on fab:

lay out your oily intake hose on the sheet. drill the holes out. now you have a nice oil ring showing where the inside of the tube is. cut that out. trim out all the excess so it won't interfere with throttle linkage, etc. test fit. trim other areas that interfere with stuff. put rtv on surfaces and bolt it back up. crack open your favorite perrier and admire your handy work.

 

no no your fine, you FABRICATED it and it's even made out of metal so you get bonus points from the fab *****. Nice job by the way and I'll give you a little tip too. get yourself a big tube od dielectric grease and then take apart each elec connector under hood and squeeze some in between and then put them back together. keeps water out and prevents corroison. Use it on all the boots on the dist cap too. Great stuff!

 

Looks good to me. I have not seen anything like this before.

 

That is pretty clever!!

 

Simple and it works. Those are sometimes the best things for an XJ!

 

I used to run something like that under my carb on my bigblock camaro. Cool idea

 

thanks. I hope yall can use it on your rigs!

 

I like it... but you could have also just put dielectric grease in the connections... I put that crap in every damn connection under the hood.

 

so it's the connector that doesn't like water? i thought it was the actual sensor body that didn't like to get wet. yesterday i squirted dielectric grease in every connection under the hood. i got an extra 10hp!

 

Add stickers for another 15

 

Also fixes stuck brake lights on a g6... Grr...

 

Thats the first thing I thought of!

 

first thing came to my mind dont cut hood vents ...just saying