What did you do to your XJ today

[Sneaky]

Re: Re: What did you do to your XJ today

any more info on what you have to do to make the fan powered on all the time? I tried the same, and spliced right into the wire before the connector to the fan, but it doesn't seem to work via switch, just comes on when it used to come on...

You can do this all at the relay in the fuse box under the hood. Take and t-tap or scotchlock a wire from your switch to terminal 85 wire under it in the fuse box housing. Then ground your switch input. This will ground that relay terminal when you activate you switch to kick the fan just like the sensor does.

For constant power cut the wire for terminal 86 as it is switched 12 volts and tap it into the hot wire from the fuse that powers the relay. Be sure to isolate the wire in the harness with a connector or tape so it doesn't short out. This will allow for the fan to run when hot and the Jeep is turned off.

 

[Red91Laredo]

Nice trick. Any idea if that will work on an older XJ? It'd be nice to be able to turn the e-fan on a little before the ECU does when crawling along a trail or in traffic. My temp gauge usually sits right in the middle of it's range but when moving very slowly on a hot day it will start to creep up a little before the e-fan kicks on.

 

[AwesomeXJ]

http://www.jpmagazine.com/techarticles/electrical/154_1207_july_2012_randys_electrical_corner/

I just read about this in JP.

 

[Sneaky]

Re: Re: What did you do to your XJ today

http://www.jpmagazine.com/techarticles/electrical/154_1207_july_2012_randys_electrical_corner/

I just read about this in JP.

That should get anyone going on this mod. Nice find!

 

[kndrewa]

You can do this all at the relay in the fuse box under the hood. Take and t-tap or scotchlock a wire from your switch to terminal 85 wire under it in the fuse box housing. Then ground your switch input. This will ground that relay terminal when you activate you switch to kick the fan just like the sensor does.

For constant power cut the wire for terminal 86 as it is switched 12 volts and tap it into the hot wire from the fuse that powers the relay. Be sure to isolate the wire in the harness with a connector or tape so it doesn't short out. This will allow for the fan to run when hot and the Jeep is turned off.

thank you!

 

[kndrewa]

http://www.jpmagazine.com/techarticles/electrical/154_1207_july_2012_randys_electrical_corner/

I just read about this in JP.

and thank you, too!

 

[Bronzewyrm]

JOSH! im waiting!....

 

[NW99XJ]

JOSH! im waiting!....

I know.... I know..... I didnt get to bed till after 1am....and had to wake up at 4:30....on top of that I forgot my camera at home with all the pics.
I did however get things all finished up, and tried my luck by driving it in today.... I'll go out and snap a couple cell phone pics here in a min, just to get get something up..... I'll be doing the full write up and giving all the credit where credit is due in my build thread later this weekend.
I have a lot of thank-you's to hand out~!

 

[NW99XJ]

Here ya go...after approx. two months of sitting in my garage, it's finally back on the road/trail. I have a lot of people to thank for the help of making this happen, I will be doing that in the write up in my build thread.....
For now.... here's some long waited for pics.








(yes i know it needs a bath)

 

[Red91Laredo]

Looks sweet!

 

[Bronzewyrm]

NICE work josh. glad you got it together. and with that pic, tessa says" heay! i want beadlocks"

thx josh
Bronze.

 

[bmikes]

....I found the pictures looks awesome josh!

 

[NW99XJ]

Thanks guys, still working on the write up in the build thread, should have that up in the next couple days.

 

[Mnkyboy]

Scrapped it.

 

[AwesomeXJ]

Ordered a rubicon express 2.5in aal for it.

 

[AwesomeXJ]

Well, since the day I bought my late model I have not been able to open the hatch. I went out this morning after reading a wiki page about how to open it from the inside, and did so. Once I got the hatch open I discovered the rod tgat opens the latch wasn't moving far enough to actually open the hatch. So I pulled it off the retaining clip and moved the clip further down the rod for more leverage. But then I got to thinking about how prone of a failure it is to have happen especially with all the vibrations of driving offroad. I wanted to fabricate a simpler way to open the hatch from the inside. So devised my mod......

I took a length of wire and tied it to lever the rod connected to with a slipknot. And did the same at the other end attached to a zip-tie. Used my dremel to put a hole in the trim panel and fished the zip-tie through it to use as a handle. Now I have a sleek backup option should my hatch ever fail to open from the outside again.

 

[crazymoose1990]

I put it on jack stands in preparation for 3 linking it.

 

[crazymoose1990]

I put it on jack stands in preparation for 3 linking it.

 

[Red91Laredo]

Pulled the cat converter and welded on the short piece of pipe that connects it to the muffler, I had an exhaust clamp on there that kept loosening and causing the exhaust to rattle. I can grab the exhaust tip and try to shake it and move the whole Jeep now, so it shouldn't rattle any more.

Also replaced my distributor mounting gasket that was causing a small but steady oil leak. I replaced OFA o-rings twice and even replaced the OFA itself to no avail, until I used the old baby powder trick, which made it totally obvious where the leak was coming from in about 10 seconds. Unfortunately I had a brain fart moment and totally forgot to mark the position of the rotor when I pulled the distributor, so now I get to find TDC and re-stab the dizzy to where the engine will actually start. :doh:

 

[AwesomeXJ]

Put the new 8.25 yoke on and new spicer 1310 ujoint.

Then modified my hatch strut by adding a stopper.