philip_g
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- back in CO
so last friday the trackbar let go in my XJ, so I've been driving a coworkers ski car, it's a 97 grand cherokee V8, lives in our parking lot unless he's in town to ski, he lives in FL.
Anyway it sits and sits and sits and he comes to drive it and the battery is of course always dead, he put a new battery in and it was OK for awhile until I needed it and had to jump it last week, I trickled charged it and life has been good. He thinks the alternator is letting go but I think it's Ok because it sits for literally 4-6 months and doesn't run.... I even ordered him a batt disconnect for it because I was so sure.
tonight I start the damn thing, back out of the spot, and it dies, restart it and it won't idle, restart it and keep it revved up enough and it runs, I get it in the spot and it dies, then the batt doesn't have enough juice to start it again.
Guess he was right and I was wrong
Anyway it sits and sits and sits and he comes to drive it and the battery is of course always dead, he put a new battery in and it was OK for awhile until I needed it and had to jump it last week, I trickled charged it and life has been good. He thinks the alternator is letting go but I think it's Ok because it sits for literally 4-6 months and doesn't run.... I even ordered him a batt disconnect for it because I was so sure.
tonight I start the damn thing, back out of the spot, and it dies, restart it and it won't idle, restart it and keep it revved up enough and it runs, I get it in the spot and it dies, then the batt doesn't have enough juice to start it again.
Guess he was right and I was wrong
