This morning, I had to call a friend to jump start my jeep. It ran fine all the way to work. But after work, I had some random guy jump it because it wouldn't start again. So I went down to four wheel parts, and bought a new battery (my boyfriend works there). And on the way home, my power steering gear box finally took a dump. So I pulled over on the side of the highway and freaked out for a little bit because all I saw was blue smoke coming from my hood and in my rear view mirror. After I got out of the jeep, I just saw a puddle of power steering fluid, and a stream coming out of the box. After a while, Seth convinced me to drive home. On the way home, the jeep started shifting funny. I don't think it was shifting down into first because when I stopped and tried to start moving again, the rpm meter would go up when i hit the gas, but the jeep didn't move. It would wait a while, then jerk into first and start moving. I tried manually shifting it down at a red light, and it didn't jerk me.

Has ANYONE ever had any kind of problem like this?! Or is my jeep just a pile of crap?

 

Fluid drip on something causing slippage?

 

sure it was a powersteering line and not a transsmission line.. sounds like your spewing tranny fluid, if your b/f works at fourwheel parts he should know whats wrong

 

he's coming over now to look at it. and my power steering box has been leaking for a while. i have a durango box that im going to put in. just havent had much time. the jeep sat for two days when we took his jeep wheeling some harder trails. and last night it ran fine. but this morning, all these problems started.

 

i kinda hope so...

 

The jerking sounds like low tranny fluid. Mines did the exact same thing when it was low on fluid. Could just be all a coincidence. My jeep took a major dump several months ago. Lost a fuel pump, tps, fuel injector and a driveshaft all in one week. I had to get it towed 3 times in one week. Now I carry just about any part you can think of lol.