Liliyah
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Sunny California
Hey guys I have been surfing the jeep forums high and low for answers as to what could be wrong with my truck and why it is acting so strange. I have yet to find anything that works so figured it is time to post and see what you all think. So have had the truck since 03 and it ran fine for the first few years then all of a sudden continues engine lights. Several jeep dealers later they change the bottom half of the engine twice and the top half once per what they say is Corps req. protocal. Anyways I pulled away and about a half our later it was running like a tractor again. Finally got all that worked out and put the truck on a transporter and moved out of NY city to Sunny Callifornia. She ran like a gem for about 6 months then boom sitting at the light and she starts loosing it and sputtering so I hit the gas thinking I may have gotten a dose of bad fuel (to blow it out a bit). Well she banged and chuged right back to a lawn boy ride-on. So I pulled over and turned her off and right back on to a great clean start. She was doing this every morning when taking the kids to school and yes I warm her up out of habit from the NY weather. So took her in after I discovered a crack in the intake manifold and 4 days later Jeep wants $4500 to fix her. I then turn in to her with the choking and banging LOL. So what they found engine light burned out (fixed), bad cat, bad intake maifold, bad therm and gaskets, needs tune-up, fuel service, 2 O2 sensors, and many other small things. Well not having that kind of money I found a regular repair shop to see what they thought. When I dropped her off there was no engine light and she was running fine, he got in and the tack was not working and engine light came on. He ran the codes and got Transmission codes and all kinds of other codes that didnt make sense. Well he kept it and cleared the codes and reprogrammed blah blah blah. He said Intake was not leaking no need to change, cat was ok but not great, abnd O2's where fantastic. So sent it to a friends shop for the codes. Found out I have the toyota trans in mine and that nothing was wrong with it. So I started on this search to find a fix to help them. Well came across some simillar codes and problems and found the ASD relay to be the fix. Well called them and they changed it and she ran well. So now trans codes where gone now to fix the mifires in 1 and 6. New plugs and all the injectors and pack wires taken off and cleaned very well. She ran fine...OMG so excited...He takes it home to really get it checked out and he throws the brights on and Engine light comes back on and shes back to doggen. Still no trans codes but she is still seeming to run off of just a few cylinders. I know this is a long story and may not be very clear as they have all my records to read thru. I would really appreciate some help anything is valid here really maybe something we are all over looking. they want to replace the ECS and the PCM but I am not sure either of those will fix anything. Tired of the throwing parts at it. I haven't driven her in almost 2 months and don't have another vehicle to drive so please help! Thank you so much guys for taking the time to read this and respond. I just hate to throw her away she is a beautiful truck.