Recent content by MikeESoc2

simple FYI: as much as I don't want to do it, likely within the next day or during next-week I am going to call into the local-church donate-car program to schedule a tow-away (since no one is expressing any interest, other than immediate-above posts from ~ few weeks ago) ... I found the...

I bought and installed that tube-grill ~ year 2005 ... don't remember which internet-site I bought that grill from ... however ... now ~ 19 years later one-side (driver-side) of that grill has significant rust-out at the ends of couple of those tubes ... I originally bought that tube-grill...

1987 XJ front: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3eqs4ll30jyaxh1ng9toq/87XJ-Front.jpg?rlkey=n0vzyc4izxs73fkghybftnkpl&st=tw7pjsj3&dl=0 1987 XJ rear: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/atwi0g4pq4itd7s72xfj9/87XJ-Rear.jpg?rlkey=dg07dukefzrl8xp77tcugqxog&st=9vdq5ljp&dl=0 1987 XJ ignition battery...

I have 4 photos of this 1987 XJ: front; rear; engine compartment showing Crane Cams Fireball HI-6S analog multi-spark ignition with Jacobs Ultra-Torquer ignition-coil & new Grp-34 battery; PS-front interior showing showing the Uniden Bearcat PC-78-XL CB-radio install. I you want to see these...

1987 Jeep Cherokee XJ 4.0L automatic-transmission 4WD: 4-doors ~ 330K odometer mileage; owned since ~ year 1997; driven less than 100-miles per-year since ~ 10 years ago; starts, runs drives (although some concern for rust-coated brake-line from master-cylinder along down-path toward-rear brakes...

Here is the latest research info: I called Carter Tech-Support (which is Federal-Mogul tech-support) this morning: http://www.federalmogul.com/en/ContactUs/ 1.800.325.8886. to ask them about inter-change-ability for Carter #P74057 (Walbro OE fuel pump) Carter #P74155 (Bosch OE fuel pump) and...

Here's some further info that I just dug-up in the change log detail for the 5 family vehicles I maintain: '87 XJ: 05/18/2009: 307,561 miles (which was ~ 21K miles ago): replaced OE fuel pump with Carter Pkg# 74155 (a bosch pump with a 1-yr warranty). Given the post I sent yesterday with the...

OK: just called up RockAuto Customer Service ... as good luck would have it, the rep who talked to me has a 99 'XJ and he recently had to replace the fuel pump on that vehicle ... which he used the entire set-up SPECTRA PREMIUM Part # SP7121M. Regardless ... here is the focus: I asked him 2...

re: immediate-prior thought "I wonder if a lack of a ballast resistor ... is causing the pump to get the wrong voltage, and damaging the pumps? " - I was thinking exactly the same thing while driving home last night in the '94 Bonneville. That is: especially since the '87 XJs do not have an OE...

I think I will go with the Omix-Ada #1770909 ... regardless a bit more expensive. I did some brief searching (all that I have time for right now) - what I found was interesting: some repeating stories from different people regarding 2-year-old replacement fuel pumps failing (which is near-exact...

Before the test that showed no flow from the pump, I had cut-out the twisted-together wire connections along the speaker-wire and replaced with a single tube-connector crimp covered with shrink-tubing - the speaker-wire looks like it nets to at least 14-ga diameter. I then charged-up the...

Been a while since I reported-back on this ... here goes: Without doubt, the fuel-pump is not pushing any gasoline int the fuel filter - so, I need to buy another pump. What I remember from reading other posts over the years: there have been some posts that say to stay away from the Airtex...

Yes ... agreed ... could be a short in the wiring under the base of what should be the fuel-pump relay ... I had a similar very interesting (at least I thought so) situation with the wiring under the aux-fan relay base that I had reported back on during April 2010 .... here's the link to the...

Thanks for all your quick replies ... here's what I found and did over the past couple of days ... encountered a couple of surprises (at least to me) along the way. Surprise #1: regardless this is an '87XJ and the manual link that I included in my first post is for 87-90 Renix, there is: A) no...

Last night I almost had to get towed due to following: Engine cranks over no problem; ignition spark when cranking no problem. When cranking but no start, can hear fuel pump buzzing in back and while ignition-key in on-position I crawled under there and sure enough fuel pump was buzzing to...