Recent content by halmca

Indeed, I could write a dissertation on the difficulties in expecting a early AW4 to work with a later model XJ. Once I THOUGHT I had reached success and drove my XJ for months, it began to set code P0700 -- this despite the fact that the jeep runs and shifts perfectly, including the TC...

So your torque converter is now locking up?

Following this thread closely as I have had TC lockup issues as well. Curious as to whether your troubles ever set a code.. BTW, at one point I got tired of suspecting the TC solenoid as well as the TC itself, so I tapped into the lead that goes to the lock-up solenoid to apply 12VDC to the...

Hey, When I got the stuff working I hardly looked back. Love your last response -- witty and on point. So otherwise lacking on the i'net. Thanks.

SOLVED! Well, sorta: Pretty sure its the ignition switch. I have learned that when I get ready to drive MY XJ, and if the airbag light fails to extinguish within the normal 15-20 seconds, I need only shut the XJ off, rip the ign switch on and off three or four times, and everything --...

Sorry, sport: your lack of importance to me warrants no further exchange with you. Bye.

Sorry, sport: your lack of importance to me warrants no further exchange with you.

What is your point? Just out of curiosity, to what office have you appointed yourself? I wonder the source of your conviction that every post on the internet is tendered mostly for your edification. I also wonder how you came to seize your delusions of grandeur so firmly. I think the answer...

And your point?

And if you follow this method, there's no need to pay for a new head gasket.

Overheating can cause head warping. On YouTube, I found an ingenious way to resurface a head w/o paying a machine shop their exorbitant fee for resurfacing. Best of all, you can do it in your own driveway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRp0UfaYNlM

Point on the toothbrush: one does not throw out he baby with the bathwater. Airbags are not perfect -- but the ratio of 'saves' vs. failures suggests with overwhelming force that their use is prudent. Or to put it differently, I ain't gonna pass up a donut because it has a hole in it. That...

Running on empty speaks -- as always -- with great wisdom. That's the first place I would look -- and I might admit -- have looked.

Thanks for the thoughtful responses. If I wrung off one of those fittings on the side of the AW-4, I would throw myself off of a bridge. Fortunately, or un, I've had mine out several times, and I keep a tube of anti-seize in my shirt pocket. BTW, throwing ones self of a bridge in north...

GREAT story! A pal who knows that I have been wrestling with a "check engine" lights sent me this. Hoping for some slack from admins, since it's not strictly XJ related . . .