Saturday, February 28, 2015

Clunk when turning left

Ever since I got the Jeep there has been a clunk when turning left. It always seemed to be coming from the middle to rear on the passenger side. I'm still not positive, but I think my exhaust is flexing enough to knock against the from when I turn. Here are some pics of the mark on the exhaust where it looks like it's hitting the frame.

Heater vacuum hose


I haven't had any heat blowing out of the vents, and recently noticed a loose vacuum hose just sitting hanging down in my floorboard. After some help by the guys on the IFSJ forum I was able to locate the vacuum motor and reattach the hose. Thought I'd post a pic in case anyone else was having the same issue. By the way this happened after messing with the radio and heater control on the dash. The vacuum line really doesn't have much slack in it so if it's hung up on another wire behind the dash it's pretty easy to pull it off the motor. I rerouted it just a bit to give me as much slack as possible.

Friday, February 13, 2015

Starter?

The Jeep has been making a grinding sound recently as soon as it starts up. It only lasts about half a second, but I'm wondering if this is the starter not disengaging from the flywheel quick enough. In the video it's slow to start, but you can briefly hear it when it finally fires up. I immediately started it after the video was shot and it didn't make the noise. Any thoughts?

Saturday, October 4, 2014

AC/Blower Motor

A couple weeks ago I recharged the AC to see if that is all it needed to work. Sure enough once I got enough freon in there the compressor clutch kicked in and it was blowing cold. Everything was working fine until the other day the fan wouldn't come on. The clutch on the compressor was still engaging so I knew it was something with either the fan or electrical. The fuse hadn't blown so I checked the resistor on the back of the ac duct. Everything seemed fine there as well. I lowered the fan/dash

and found pieces of a rubber gasket from behind the dash had fallen in the fan, and it was stuck in place. Pulled the pieces out along with some more rotted gasket back there and it fired right up.

Drum brakes and more

I had a bachelor weekend this weekend so I decided to get some things done that were going to take some time. First thing I did was reseal my valve covers. I have had some smoking under the hood and I'm trying to find it by process of elimination. First up was the valve covers. I took them off, pounded the bolt holes flat so everything would sit flat and I used the Right Stuff gasket maker to seal them.

After that it was time for back brakes. I didn't know what I was getting into, but they actually weren't that bad. I ended up replacing the shoes, all the spring hardware and the wheel cylinders. The drums were in really good shape. The shoes actually were too, but I figured why not change them out while I was in there.






Pulling Parts

I found a junker about an hour and a half from here that had some parts I needed so I went out and pulled some stuff. I got the bumper (which had the original marchal fog lights), roof rack, and headliner board. I will update with more pics later, but the headliner board was in such good condition that I pulled it. I took off the old material, sanded it down and put new material on. I'm pretty happy with it.