Fun coincidence, I just replaced the tensioner on my 5.9 ZJ last week. You may not have picked up on it, but at 3:45 there's a good lesson for novices--and a reminder for experienced wrenchers. Anytime you're working with metal tools near exposed terminals (battery terminal, alternator terminal, starter terminal, etc.), always be careful not to touch your tool (which is usually in contact with a bolt that's grounded to the chassis) to that terminal. It'll create a light show, scare the bejesus out of you, and possibly damage the vehicle's electronics. Keep up the great vids, I'm really enjoying the ZJ project...
I have been running Jeeps for almost 20 years now and I just discovered your YT Channel. I spent 20+ years on active duty and am now a retired Marine, but still a Marine. Had to wait till my kids grew up for their not to be any excuses for me getting the Wrangler of my dreams. That was Betty. I am now on Betty III with a 2017 74th Anniversary Edition 2 door Wrangler and she is SMOKIN' !! I wanted to tell you that I look forward to binge watching a good number of your videos as I get her into shape for a good muddy rompin" !! You men seem to have your heads on straight and I noticed that most of your tips could apply to my vision for Betty III and they made a damn good bit of sense! Keep up the good work and mabey I'll see ya'll on the trail some day.
Jaysson Tansey No joke!, the rigs at our junk yards don't even have the engines in em.. all ther good for is the miscellaneous interior stuff and most body parts
I heard somewhere if you leave your batteries on concrete over night it'll drain em... not sure why ..but I was always told to set em on a wood block or something to keep em from dying
Brandon Andrews while it's true that concrete IS a good conductor of electricity, the outer shell of the battery is insulated and there's very little chance of the concrete draining the battery unless the insulation is damaged, but then the same would happen in your metal battery tray...
Brian Bird Hmm.. good point.. I never really looked into it, someone just told me that... what about in cold weather conditions though?.. you think concrete could make the affect cold weather has on batteries worse?
Another slighty safer method of hearing the pulley bearings. Get a long screwdriver and put a cone or empty jug on the handle end to act as a resonator. Then go through with that, keeps your head away further away from moving parts.
I'm doing the same thing right now. Just bought my 96 zj in March before I found out about operation cheap Jeep, coincidently I used the same project name lol. Needed new rad, fuel filter, fluid changes. Found out I had a leaky water pump, no big deal, took fan off and fumbled it. 8 holes in the brand new rad, there was a lot of bleepin'..... Hope there's better luck in the future for both our cheap Jeeps!
maybe the belt jumps off the AC pulley because the harmonic balancer is falling apart. when the out side of the balancer separates from the inside it becomes out of like and can ever cut into the engine block
MrMrsregor I second this, I went through two belts before my buddy pointed it out to me.that little bit poking out made my belt jump right off my ac also.
My ZJ belt had the same squeaky issue. Drove me crazy. I finally loosened the 4 bolts that hold the a/c compressor on and pushed the compressor towards the firewall and then re-tightened the bolts. Fixed it!! The belt was out of alignment just a hair...
Kevin spacey I did all that too. then finally pushed back the compressor. it has just enough play room to fix the squeal. notice, he is doing the first things we did...lolol
and also, take a small flathead screwdriver and clean out the pulley grooves on the power steering pump. its probably got little bits of belt rubber in there..
The Cleveland PAP is great and usually has a half a dozen ZJs and another handful of XJs. Never any TJs though--they all seem to wind up in dedicated Jeep salvage yards. But holy hell, you guys are spoiled in southern salvage yards full of rust free stuff. That green ZJ had no business being there!
And I'd argue that on a clean bodied ZJ, a blown engine shouldn't mean the end either. That one was a 4.0L...easy to pull and even easier to source a replacement.
I had this type of issue just last weekend...turned out to be alignment. bracket holding the top idler bearing was slightly knocked out of shape...probably due to high speed water impact. reshaped bracket and aligned as best i could with shims and using a straight edge. all good now.
those ZJ's sometimes have a short in the computer that kicks the ignition coil on and off. I bet all those new parts were to try and fix that problem of it running bad. it can feel like it needs a good tune up. I know because my ZJ had the same problem. luckily i did some research and just soldered a pin in the computer and fixed the problem.
had me Rollin at the end. let's give it a shot with the boat battery.... click click click the sound of a dead battery lol. also should have grabbed the idler pulley while you were at the scrap yard 7/10 it's idler or tentioner.
Being a trained auto tech. I have worked in a few shops over the years. Ran my own shop for several years now . I have seen the effects of storeing batteries in a concrete floor or the bare ground first hand many time. I have sold many batteries to people who just didnt know any better than to leave a battery on concrete without haveing some type of barrier under there battery. Go to any any parts store, shop, dealership service deptment they will always have batteries on a shelf or rack of some type. never stored on the bare floor for ground. Unless there cores..
5.2 and 5.9 magnum v8s are notorious for bad tensioner pulleys and idler pulleys. also notorious for the power steering pump bracket cracking. id inspect that too. someone makes a billet bracket on ebay. also zjs love when you clean all electrical connections and grounds under the hood. it was night and day after cleaning everything on my zj. almost forgot to mention that a gummed up or bad iac sensor will make them run crappy too.
I had one of those "smart" battery chargers. it was always giving me problems, kicking out, refusing to charge, quitting early, etc. I replaced it with a totally dumb charger and no problems since.
I saw a tip on SOUTH MAIN AUTO page from eric o. that if you take a long ass screw driver and cut the top half of a jug off and tape the pour spout portion of the jug to the handle of the screw driver it makes almost aloud horn effect of a bad bearing y touching it with the screw driver tip.
That distributor looks exactly like the one I picked up from autozone that had the 2.5 liter gear on it instead of the 4 liter. seems like a lot of new parts on that thing.
Matt, that squeaking sure sounds like what my 99 Dakota with the 5.2 was doing. Replaced the alternator, and the tensioner and it turned out it was the AC clutch. Sounded exactly like that. See if your AC works. I still have the new clutch I bought for it (ended up replacing the whole compressor). Let me know if you need it.
Yeap the life of a ZJ owner. I know this very well. The hose trick is something I will try, I have had a squeeky pulley for months now and after replacing 4 of them its about time to find the bad egg. Finally gave up on AZ batteries and Alternators and went to Orilees. Gonna see how long they last.
i just found a guy in my town who was parting a 2000 xj sport, i stripped that sucker for less than 100 american pesos, mirrors to put on my 90 xj, extra starter, alternator, confuser to sell, 2 batteries, brake parts and more. pick n pull in my area is a lot more expensive than yours.
Did you check the pulley alignment? I had a very similar squeak after I replaced the power steering pump on my chevy pickup. The pulley went on 1/4" too far, pulling it out of alignment by that much. And that was enough to make the belt chirp like that and not track straight.
my idler on my tj decided to bend, wobble, throw off the belt and gash a hole in on of my coolant hoses :) it also busted off the mount so i had to track down a discontinued part
That boat battery likely won't have the CCA required to turn over a V8 engine, unless your boat has an inboard/outboard motor which would also require a battery fit for a car. Just my .02. Love the videos, keep them coming. Would love to see the rigs you work on all the time actually doing some hard wheeling!
Bad starter now? My ZJ did the same but after replacing the starter it was fine. Acted up again, so took out the starter and reinstalled it. No issues since then and runs great.
usually when your see a car with new parts on it at the junkyard it's because they threw a bunch of money at it and didn't do proper diagnostics. yes you can get new parts for cheap but would you pay money for a part that was most likely installed wrong and might not work.
I know what the problem is for your battery you got to get rid of those battery cables to clamp down on the wires change and put the factory type ones and you have a better charge and what I had on you
Thanks @bleepinjeep for liking my comment on such an old video!! I just picked up my first zj after bieng a long time xj guy. And as usually looking for the cheapest way to do it! Even years later this content is extremly helpful!!Thanks for making the best jeep content on youtube!!
Use an old battery charger. We have exact same charger and it will not charge a really dead battery. Pull out my 25 year old Schumacher and it will charge the battery. The new one will charge a low battery but not a dead battery.
I've been told by powers that know much more than myself, that that belt dressing is just for v belts and not serpentine. idk. Your results were the same as every time I tried the steps on my Jeep.
ZJ's seem to be notorious for parasitic battery drains... if mine sits longer than three days, it will be dead...and if the weather changes, (hot to cold or cold to hot) it will be dead after 24 hours... gotta love jeep gremlins!
i have a question. how good would have lsd up front and rear on a stock 2000 xj? i dont plan to wheel hard with this particular jeep. i just want maximum grip for medium hard wheeling.
thought was that good to have batteries on the ground? was always told to have a board or something noncomductive under them? or is that the same like never pee on an electric fence ..?
Kevin spacey Wow, they must not be taking care of them. My father had a 96 ZJ with the 4.0L. It had the original engine, trans, transfer and axles when we sold it with 220k on it. He had owned it from almost new, it had 15k on it when he bought it.
Just hearing the squeak, I would say water pump or tensioner pulley. Looks like you found it. Your spraying the outside of the belt. Besides you should throw that Belt Dressing in the trash. It will destroy a good belt. Poor mechanics "don't know what the hell I'm doing" You found it the idler pulley. Idler pulley is not something you should buy used.
I have a question for you. My 1988 Cherokee will not shift up when it's put into drive, or won't go into passing gear when I press the gas pedal down. What could be the problem?
that new batt was only 12.1 volts or so. that's a dead battery. new it should be 12.9v or used it should be around 12.6v. anything lower than 12.3v is dead.
you really need to put your batteries on a block of wood or an old rubber floor mat when you are chargeing them or storeing them. just setting them on the concret floor or the ground in general can drain then of there charge
do things your way guess you could say im old school better safe than sorry . I would rather not have to buy a battery if it can be avoided. I know batteries are incased in better materials than they were in the past but you still need to protect them from any possible discharge by setting them on the ground or on concrete. enough said do your thing ill do mine
My god... if I ever saw that many Cherokees in a yard I would be in heaven. I"m lucky if I can even find an XJ between the yards I have visited in my area. Even in the past when I was in Ocala and drove to a place an hour away I found about 2 grand cherokees and neither of them helped me out. I ended up having to use Car-Parts.com to find another place 2-3 hours away. How far do you have to drive to get to a place like that from your house?
BleepinJeep i guess im lucky here in Jacksonville we got 2 pull a parts both within about 30 minutes from the house. Both full of grand Cherokee an a few xj too
Fun coincidence, I just replaced the tensioner on my 5.9 ZJ last week. You may not have picked up on it, but at 3:45 there's a good lesson for novices--and a reminder for experienced wrenchers. Anytime you're working with metal tools near exposed terminals (battery terminal, alternator terminal, starter terminal, etc.), always be careful not to touch your tool (which is usually in contact with a bolt that's grounded to the chassis) to that terminal. It'll create a light show, scare the bejesus out of you, and possibly damage the vehicle's electronics. Keep up the great vids, I'm really enjoying the ZJ project...
I have been running Jeeps for almost 20 years now and I just discovered your YT Channel. I spent 20+ years on active duty and am now a retired Marine, but still a Marine. Had to wait till my kids grew up for their not to be any excuses for me getting the Wrangler of my dreams. That was Betty. I am now on Betty III with a 2017 74th Anniversary Edition 2 door Wrangler and she is SMOKIN' !! I wanted to tell you that I look forward to binge watching a good number of your videos as I get her into shape for a good muddy rompin" !! You men seem to have your heads on straight and I noticed that most of your tips could apply to my vision for Betty III and they made a damn good bit of sense! Keep up the good work and mabey I'll see ya'll on the trail some day.
that looks like one of the cleanest junkyards I've ever seen.
Jaysson Tansey I concur, I even made the same comment to my son as we watched this.
Jaysson Tansey No joke!, the rigs at our junk yards don't even have the engines in em.. all ther good for is the miscellaneous interior stuff and most body parts
I heard somewhere if you leave your batteries on concrete over night it'll drain em... not sure why ..but I was always told to set em on a wood block or something to keep em from dying
Brandon Andrews while it's true that concrete IS a good conductor of electricity, the outer shell of the battery is insulated and there's very little chance of the concrete draining the battery unless the insulation is damaged, but then the same would happen in your metal battery tray...
Brian Bird Hmm.. good point.. I never really looked into it, someone just told me that... what about in cold weather conditions though?.. you think concrete could make the affect cold weather has on batteries worse?
2:59 you were quite close to welding that wrench to your car... :-)
I was expecting an arc at the 3:40 mark.
actually did that but off camera
Dude, i laughed out loud when I heard the starter clicking. Lol. Been there and done that too many times to count. Good luck
The Mr. Bean like intros to cheap jeep videos are the best 😂
Yeeah I have never had belt dressing work, it usually makes things worse. You can hear it get louder in the video too!
ya it always makes it worse. then its a mess when you wanna buy a new belt. you have to clean all the pullys with brake clean
I've only ever dressed a belt with soapstone, works anywhere between 5minuotes and a week keeps it quiet for a while anyways and dirt cheap
Glad you found a tension pulley finally! Ran into you last time you went and it seemed like everyone got all the good stuff when I was there last!
Great information. I love the videos when your thinking out loud - sharing thoughts and some reasoning. Another Thumbs Up!
if the belt jumps off a pulley check all the bearings in all the pulleys. it happened to me. ended up being water pump throwing the belt off
Another slighty safer method of hearing the pulley bearings. Get a long screwdriver and put a cone or empty jug on the handle end to act as a resonator.
Then go through with that, keeps your head away further away from moving parts.
Always great to watch troubleshooting videos to help us out when the need arrises. Great video!
your parasitic drain on the battery is most likely caused by a BCM(body control module) not going to sleep like it should,
liked and replied so hopefully he reads your comment. same exact problem my 97 ZJ had a few years ago
Yep, I've had one do it too.. still love my ZJ's! Searching for another for the last few days now!
I'm doing the same thing right now. Just bought my 96 zj in March before I found out about operation cheap Jeep, coincidently I used the same project name lol. Needed new rad, fuel filter, fluid changes. Found out I had a leaky water pump, no big deal, took fan off and fumbled it. 8 holes in the brand new rad, there was a lot of bleepin'.....
Hope there's better luck in the future for both our cheap Jeeps!
maybe the belt jumps off the AC pulley because the harmonic balancer is falling apart. when the out side of the balancer separates from the inside it becomes out of like and can ever cut into the engine block
MrMrsregor I second this, I went through two belts before my buddy pointed it out to me.that little bit poking out made my belt jump right off my ac also.
My ZJ belt had the same squeaky issue. Drove me crazy. I finally loosened the 4 bolts that hold the a/c compressor on and pushed the compressor towards the firewall and then re-tightened the bolts. Fixed it!! The belt was out of alignment just a hair...
Kevin spacey I did all that too. then finally pushed back the compressor. it has just enough play room to fix the squeal. notice, he is doing the first things we did...lolol
loosen them, start the engine, and move the compressor until you find the sweet spot...then quickly tighten them
and also, take a small flathead screwdriver and clean out the pulley grooves on the power steering pump. its probably got little bits of belt rubber in there..
I wish my Pick N Pull was full of jeeps like yours....
The two by me do not have a single wrangler and any xj is just a shell.
no PAP's out there?
The Cleveland PAP is great and usually has a half a dozen ZJs and another handful of XJs. Never any TJs though--they all seem to wind up in dedicated Jeep salvage yards. But holy hell, you guys are spoiled in southern salvage yards full of rust free stuff. That green ZJ had no business being there!
CCCommander I couldn't agree more, that poor jeep better have blown a hole in a piston or something!! Dang fool giving that thing up.
And I'd argue that on a clean bodied ZJ, a blown engine shouldn't mean the end either. That one was a 4.0L...easy to pull and even easier to source a replacement.
LOL that tensioner pulley is hilarious.
Finaly a cheap jeep video, i have been waiting for this project videos lol
the time has come!
@3:45 I thought for sure you were gonna short that battery post! :-)
I had this type of issue just last weekend...turned out to be alignment. bracket holding the top idler bearing was slightly knocked out of shape...probably due to high speed water impact. reshaped bracket and aligned as best i could with shims and using a straight edge. all good now.
those ZJ's sometimes have a short in the computer that kicks the ignition coil on and off. I bet all those new parts were to try and fix that problem of it running bad. it can feel like it needs a good tune up. I know because my ZJ had the same problem. luckily i did some research and just soldered a pin in the computer and fixed the problem.
Welcome to the wonderful world of Zjs :)
I had a bent pulley on my bad xj water pump recently and replaced it with a new one and a 16ths inch shim made out of gasket paper.
had me Rollin at the end. let's give it a shot with the boat battery.... click click click the sound of a dead battery lol.
also should have grabbed the idler pulley while you were at the scrap yard 7/10 it's idler or tentioner.
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Being a trained auto tech. I have worked in a few shops over the years. Ran my own shop for several years now . I have seen the effects of storeing batteries in a concrete floor or the bare ground first hand many time. I have sold many batteries to people who just didnt know any better than to leave a battery on concrete without haveing some type of barrier under there battery. Go to any any parts store, shop, dealership service deptment they will always have batteries on a shelf or rack of some type. never stored on the bare floor for ground. Unless there cores..
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5.2 and 5.9 magnum v8s are notorious for bad tensioner pulleys and idler pulleys. also notorious for the power steering pump bracket cracking. id inspect that too. someone makes a billet bracket on ebay. also zjs love when you clean all electrical connections and grounds under the hood. it was night and day after cleaning everything on my zj. almost forgot to mention that a gummed up or bad iac sensor will make them run crappy too.
I had one of those "smart" battery chargers. it was always giving me problems, kicking out, refusing to charge, quitting early, etc. I replaced it with a totally dumb charger and no problems since.
I saw a tip on SOUTH MAIN AUTO page from eric o. that if you take a long ass screw driver and cut the top half of a jug off and tape the pour spout portion of the jug to the handle of the screw driver it makes almost aloud horn effect of a bad bearing y touching it with the screw driver tip.
That distributor looks exactly like the one I picked up from autozone that had the 2.5 liter gear on it instead of the 4 liter. seems like a lot of new parts on that thing.
Matt, that squeaking sure sounds like what my 99 Dakota with the 5.2 was doing. Replaced the alternator, and the tensioner and it turned out it was the AC clutch. Sounded exactly like that. See if your AC works. I still have the new clutch I bought for it (ended up replacing the whole compressor). Let me know if you need it.
Touch the hose to the pulleys! Oh, but make sure you secure it to your wrist real tight so you don't drop it. Remember safety 3rd!
Yeap the life of a ZJ owner. I know this very well. The hose trick is something I will try, I have had a squeeky pulley for months now and after replacing 4 of them its about time to find the bad egg. Finally gave up on AZ batteries and Alternators and went to Orilees. Gonna see how long they last.
it works really well sometimes... didnt help me this time because of the wind noise but usually does the trick
i just found a guy in my town who was parting a 2000 xj sport, i stripped that sucker for less than 100 american pesos, mirrors to put on my 90 xj, extra starter, alternator, confuser to sell, 2 batteries, brake parts and more. pick n pull in my area is a lot more expensive than yours.
if you put breaker bar with socket and "unloosen" the tensioner( clockwise). do it from the bottom. it would pull it tight js
Had the same thing happen to my wife's ZJ. Turned out to be a bad connection in the negative battery terminal. I'd check there
Did you check the pulley alignment? I had a very similar squeak after I replaced the power steering pump on my chevy pickup. The pulley went on 1/4" too far, pulling it out of alignment by that much. And that was enough to make the belt chirp like that and not track straight.
The suspense is killing me!! 🤣🗡
me too
harmonic balancer pulls the belt out of alignment and the belt is probably rubbing the chain casev and balancer is eating through it :)
ask what happened to me ;)
CAN'T WAIT FOR PART 2 SOON.........
That's how it goes with mine too, but it's worth it in the end
my idler on my tj decided to bend, wobble, throw off the belt and gash a hole in on of my coolant hoses :) it also busted off the mount so i had to track down a discontinued part
I know this is old bro but the tensioner is bad and now the belt is contaminated. Love your videos.
well you had the 12v but sounds like your CCA is extremely low
That boat battery likely won't have the CCA required to turn over a V8 engine, unless your boat has an inboard/outboard motor which would also require a battery fit for a car. Just my .02. Love the videos, keep them coming. Would love to see the rigs you work on all the time actually doing some hard wheeling!
dont know anything about that but yes it is an I/O
I welded the hood of a project truck one time, closing the hood on a larger battery. woops
ouch!
you might have a bad ground. love ur videos btw keep em coming
at 5:21 i see a crooked idler pulley, might be a idea to check it :)
Bad starter now? My ZJ did the same but after replacing the starter it was fine. Acted up again, so took out the starter and reinstalled it. No issues since then and runs great.
Matt putting your battery on the cement is a no no
its the idler pully in the center. got alot louder.
12 volts and zero cranking amps...lol
For the record: 12.14 is about 60% charged. That's probably why it didn't start.
usually when your see a car with new parts on it at the junkyard it's because they threw a bunch of money at it and didn't do proper diagnostics. yes you can get new parts for cheap but would you pay money for a part that was most likely installed wrong and might not work.
Use the coil pack and the distributor to tune up your crawler
The a/c is a possible culprit of your battery drain along with many other possibilities. That is what was wrong with mine.
I know what the problem is for your battery you got to get rid of those battery cables to clamp down on the wires change and put the factory type ones and you have a better charge and what I had on you
really like your videos man. I'm making my own zj...slowly.
.11 amps is still far to much current draw. if you let it sit for 5 minutes and still get .11 amps, you have something amiss.
Belt dressing usually only works on v belts...just makes a mess of serpintine belts.
Thanks @bleepinjeep for liking my comment on such an old video!! I just picked up my first zj after bieng a long time xj guy. And as usually looking for the cheapest way to do it! Even years later this content is extremly helpful!!Thanks for making the best jeep content on youtube!!
Use an old battery charger. We have exact same charger and it will not charge a really dead battery. Pull out my 25 year old Schumacher and it will charge the battery. The new one will charge a low battery but not a dead battery.
If you "unloosen" a bolt does that mean tighten ?
no yes
So are you saying pretty much but not really?
Stuck Buck No, precisely
Don't forget for motor parts same vintage Dakotas, Durangos, and 1500 Rams can have the same motor.
CHANGE YOUR BATTERY CABLES just went through this in my wife's 98 and my 96
Dude mine squeaked like that right before the idler pulley shot off while I was stuck.
Man, I haven't seen a distributor in years. Not since I sold my 1980 J7 in 2015.
I've been told by powers that know much more than myself, that that belt dressing is just for v belts and not serpentine. idk. Your results were the same as every time I tried the steps on my Jeep.
hmmm, this is the first time ive heard it but good to know
Who would have thought a vehicle bought from a junk yard would have problems lol.
I know right
ZJ's seem to be notorious for parasitic battery drains... if mine sits longer than three days, it will be dead...and if the weather changes, (hot to cold or cold to hot) it will be dead after 24 hours... gotta love jeep gremlins!
Well I really hope thats not the issue, both batteries arent 100% from the get go so...
Questions I have a zj as well but was wondering do u think a m715 convertions kit for a jk work for the 2020 gladiator..
Ah bro you're fine!! I've got a solar panel battery in my trooper!
It is a bad idea to spray WD40 into your pulleys. It will wash the grease out of the bearings and make it go bad way faster. Also love the videos
i have a question. how good would have lsd up front and rear on a stock 2000 xj? i dont plan to wheel hard with this particular jeep. i just want maximum grip for medium hard wheeling.
thought was that good to have batteries on the ground? was always told to have a board or something noncomductive under them? or is that the same like never pee on an electric fence ..?
you must be living right , at 3:43 of this video you pulled that breaker bar over on the positive batter
on the positive battery terminal!
What? A ZJ with electrical problems? LOL Man, I've had two ZJ's in the past and I'll never own another one. Both were total electrical nightmares.
maybe this one too!
It's a shame that green ZJ was sent to the junk yard. It looked really clean.
lots of nice stuff out there at PAP
Kevin spacey Wow, they must not be taking care of them. My father had a 96 ZJ with the 4.0L. It had the original engine, trans, transfer and axles when we sold it with 220k on it. He had owned it from almost new, it had 15k on it when he bought it.
You are not to use belt dressing on serpentine belts. It is only for v belts that is why it jumped on the ac
Just hearing the squeak, I would say water pump or tensioner pulley. Looks like you found it. Your spraying the outside of the belt. Besides you should throw that Belt Dressing in the trash. It will destroy a good belt. Poor mechanics "don't know what the hell I'm doing" You found it the idler pulley. Idler pulley is not something you should buy used.
u should try gun lube on pulley bearings (liberty lube is really good)
I have a question for you. My 1988 Cherokee will not shift up when it's put into drive, or won't go into passing gear when I press the gas pedal down. What could be the problem?
at the end it was like the battery was dead or low loose connection at battery or starter
that new batt was only 12.1 volts or so. that's a dead battery. new it should be 12.9v or used it should be around 12.6v. anything lower than 12.3v is dead.
When you see a belt tensioner not tightening, but you can't figure out if it's bad...SMH
That pulley is a chirpin
you really need to put your batteries on a block of wood or an old rubber floor mat when you are chargeing them or storeing them. just setting them on the concret floor or the ground in general can drain then of there charge
Old wives have tails? Good to know.
But yeah, modern batteries don't give a crap about concrete.
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Not true. Google can be your friend.
do things your way guess you could say im old school better safe than sorry . I would rather not have to buy a battery if it can be avoided. I know batteries are incased in better materials than they were in the past but you still need to protect them from any possible discharge by setting them on the ground or on concrete. enough said do your thing ill do mine
Nice video
My god... if I ever saw that many Cherokees in a yard I would be in heaven. I"m lucky if I can even find an XJ between the yards I have visited in my area. Even in the past when I was in Ocala and drove to a place an hour away I found about 2 grand cherokees and neither of them helped me out. I ended up having to use Car-Parts.com to find another place 2-3 hours away. How far do you have to drive to get to a place like that from your house?
It's a little over an hour away.
BleepinJeep i guess im lucky here in Jacksonville we got 2 pull a parts both within about 30 minutes from the house. Both full of grand Cherokee an a few xj too
I COULD SURE USE THE NEW DISTRIBUTER THE HOLE THING INCLUDING THE WIRES...... PLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Bleepin jeep got 99 problems and this cheap jeep is one lol
Is a 1997 grand with 136,000 worth 3k?
What size lift is that
Haha, love the video title
how do I get involved with bleepinjeep?
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batteries on a concrete floor is a no no