The damper door that controls outdoor air feed (Normal) versus indoor recirculation (MAX- which is also a higher velocity in the recirculate mode out the front dash grills) is vacuum operated, and I think the other damper that controls the feed to the front grill versus the upper and lower split feed (labeled dual?), defaults to outdoor air and split (dual) level when you loose high vacuum at the AC controls. Happens at WOT if there is a small leak anywhere in the AC vacuum tubing, or all the time for a large vacuum leak.
Any kind of small vacuum leak in the cabin, or in any of the small tubing near the firewall where it enters the firewall near the AC expansion valve is located, causes the problem. The old tubing at the firewall is very brittle!!!
cleaned my IAT, MAT, what ever you may know it as...the air intake sensor in the intake manifold. It was waayyy outta spec on resistance to temp so I cleaned it. It was all gummed up from all the oil that use to enter my intake from the ccv system. So I may move it to my intake tube when I reinstall it to help combat that situation. Cleaned and all better now so I do not have to keep looking for a part that is no where to be found any longer....
I re-cleaned my MAT with some B12 that I got today. Man I tell yah I thought I had it clean until I dipped it into that. The B12 went to instant oil color...lol But all in and wholly crap it reads and my O2 sensor reads right again and my RIG now goes into closed loop again..... Soooo I decided to take out and look at the sensor from my 89' DD and low and behold it was worse then the one in the rig. So yup cleaned it all of with a bath in some B12. All clean with no scrubbing, just kind swirled and sloshed it around in it's bath..lol Checked both 89's with the snap-on MT2500 and everything is reading perfect, well normal for two 23 year old Jeeps....
took the front shafts out just to do it. Went easier than expected. should be no problem when swapping in the field. LOL. Still gotta put a new u-joint on the passenger side.
took the front shafts out just to do it. Went easier than expected. should be no problem when swapping in the field. LOL. Still gotta put a new u-joint on the passenger side.
started tearing down the front end to repair bent metal. drilled out the spot wels on my "new" straight piece. and took all the body panels off the jeep.
i was gonna buy me a 08 outback but everyone in my family said it was a bad idea lol so i spent my down payment on a new car on 4.88 gears and having them installed next week lol
son of a bitch! i left the windows down in both the jeep and the wagon. **** my life. the subaru was going to loose its interior anyways, but the jeep was prestine!
I finally stopped procrastinating and installed the Lumina Z34 vent hoods. Took most of last weekend to measure and cut. Painted all cuts and vents this week and installed just now. I have not had overheating issues but XJ’s run hot under the hood and I want to be safe. I’ll check them out good next weekend on the Arkansas run with Central Overland.
I just found out my fog lights don't work. And one of them had a bunch of masking take on it. This confirmed GSequoia's suspicion that something wasn't right with my bumpers/flares/side trim being black... its all been sprayed with krylon fusion.
I'm gonna guess he didnt hook the fog lights back up after removing the bumper to paint, once it dries up outside I'm gonna check it out.
bought a ford 8.8 a few weeks ago during that cut all the explorer junk off it and tore it down. Today pick up 4.88 G2 ring and pinions for it and for the d30 went to a buddies and installed the ring and pinion into the 8.8. in the near future will be pulling the axles (will be glad to see the d-35 go)out of the xj to refurb/regear the d-30 and install the ford 8.8 which will recieve a swap/truss kit from Iron rock.
