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and if you have any questions or want to chat im an ase certified mechanic and am more than happy to have a chat with you (949) 842-0678 is my number! 🙂
Hey thanks for your comment. Appreciate your input. My advice to you is to keep up on all the schedule maintenance. Thats the most important thing to keep your car lasting. Change out your every 50,000. Transfer case fluid every 30,000. Do a tune up: new 02 sensors, Replace your air filter, new pcv valve, all 8 spark plugs and a new fuel filter will make it run like a top again. I just did that to mine and boy it runs so much better now dude. Also good choice with the synthetic 5w30 thats perfect! Stick with the high mileage oil and a good filter is a great plan too. Change every 4-5k miles. You can bump up to 10w30 in the summer but dont go any higher than that the engine was designed with closer tolerances for 5w30 or 10w30 viscosity.These jeeps are pretty good cars mine has been a pleasure to go on vacations with. Good luck and keep me posted on if you have any questions! 🙂
Im chad i ride a 2005 Yamaha YZ250f 13.5:1 compression, running 110 leaded race gas, fmf powerbomb/ fmf 4.1 exhaust and a 13/48 gear ratio on the sprockets. Been riding 17 years. Its my favorite bike ive ever had, its a 250f with the steel frame. Have owned many bikes including a 07 kawasaki kx85, 97 honda cr80, 07 yamaha ttr 125 and my last bike was a 2003 yamaha yz125. Currently about to transition to the street and looking at a cbr600 or yamaha r6 this week finishing the dmv bullshit to get my m1 permit then license. Cheers- chad
Okay sweet! Thank you that makes sense now. This pertains to a 99 jeep grand cherokee 4.7L V8 engine, cap says power steering fluid but i just changed the power steering pressure line and filled it with atf +4 with no problems so far. Is this bad in the long run? Its my daily driver.
Bad news:
As you know Got rid of the check engine light took the car into a local mechanic shop for a smog. Car passed smog test and underhood inspection.
The car burns oil because it needs new valve guides/valve guide seals so the shop failed my smog test because visually the car smokes alot.
I tried to pay the smog tech an extra $20 to pass it but he told me that California has very strict smog rules and the B.A.R. stops by every so often to make sure they are following the rules. Also customers will come back years later and blame the shops for wondering how the car passed smog in prior years and can lose their smog license. The technician told me to get the B.A.R. to do the CAP program which will pay me up to $1500 for the car to take it off the road so i am gonna have to do that because i have no other choice because the car wont pass smog. If i knew of some shady shops that would pass smog for an extra fee i would be willing to go that route.
Bad news:
As you know Got rid of the check engine light took the car into a local mechanic shop for a smog. Car passed smog test and underhood inspection.
The car burns oil because it needs new valve guides/valve guide seals so the shop failed my smog test because visually the car smokes alot.
I tried to pay the smog tech an extra $20 to pass it but he told me that California has very strict smog rules and the B.A.R. stops by every so often to make sure they are following the rules. Also customers will come back years later and blame the shops for wondering how the car passed smog in prior years and can lose their smog license. The technician told me to get the B.A.R. to do the CAP program which will pay me up to $1500 for the car to take it off the road so i am gonna have to do that because i have no other choice because the car wont pass smog. If i knew of some shady shops that would pass smog for an extra fee i would be willing to go that route.
Hi eric my friend Checked all the wiring with a test light and all the wiring is good, has brand new coolant temperature sensors so that couldnt be the problem either so we sent out the pcm/ecm to a shop and it tested bad. $200 later a New PCM fixed my car.
Hi eric my friend Checked all the wiring with a test light and all the wiring is good, has brand new coolant temperature sensors so that couldnt be the problem either so we sent out the pcm/ecm to a shop and it tested bad. $200 later a New PCM fixed my car.
Hi Karl i have access to All Data and mitchell on demand for free at the local college i am attending so i for sure will be looking at that because you reminded me of that. I am so thankful for people like you and my college auto instructors going out of there way to help me for free and i will be more specific on my next posts.
Thanks again,
ChadHi Karl i have access to All Data and mitchell on demand for free at the local college i am attending so i for sure will be looking at that because you reminded me of that. I am so thankful for people like you and my college auto instructors going out of there way to help me for free and i will be more specific on my next posts.
Thanks again,
ChadThank you for the help, and for that website. Its gonna either be code 14 or 15 according to my research. I found a stray green wire thats not plugged into anything and it might be the issue but the car runs really well. Ill look into the bypassed electric fan because that makes alot of sense that the car has lots of added stuff from the previous owner, i just wish i had a dad or grandpa or uncle that know more about these old cars cause they are really cool 🙂
Thank you for the help, and for that website. Its gonna either be code 14 or 15 according to my research. I found a stray green wire thats not plugged into anything and it might be the issue but the car runs really well. Ill look into the bypassed electric fan because that makes alot of sense that the car has lots of added stuff from the previous owner, i just wish i had a dad or grandpa or uncle that know more about these old cars cause they are really cool 🙂
