What is this?

97XJ2

NAXJA Forum User

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Wisconsin & the U.P.

• Jan 12, 2008

• #1

Ok looks like some sort of solenoid that deals with the heating/cooling sys. Now periodically it ticks with RPM and speeds up and down with RPM, i cant isolate conditions that create it. It sits above the condensor (?) to the left of the engine. Jeep is a '97. finally should this tick, is it normal or do I need to replace it.

 

Wayne Sihler

NAXJA Member

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Location

Maurertown,Va.

• Jan 12, 2008

• #2

It is the purge sol for the E-Vap system.The clicking you hear is it just doing its job.
Wayne

Ps to answer your other question-The PCM sets it off It can throw a code PO442 or PO455 if it detects a vac leak.
Be sure your gas cap is tight.

 

Last edited: Jan 12, 2008

97XJ2

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Wisconsin & the U.P.

• Jan 12, 2008

• #3

thanks, and just so i know what does it need to be purging and what then sets it off?

 

Wayne Sihler

NAXJA Member

NAXJA Member

Location

Maurertown,Va.

• Jan 12, 2008

• #4

Gas vapors out of the charcoal canister.
Wayne

 

97XJ2

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Wisconsin & the U.P.

• Jan 12, 2008

• #5

k thanks!

 

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88manche

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Portland, Oregon

• Jan 12, 2008

• #6

Nope. Wrong.









Its the Flux Capacitor.

 

corbinafly

"Mmmm. More please."

Location

lakewood,ca

• Jan 12, 2008

• #7

The noise kinda irritates me too. Oh well. Maybe I can isolate it better from the firewall somehow.

 

Matthew Currie

NAXJA Member #760

Location

Vermont, land of big clay

• Jan 12, 2008

• #8

First time I heard that on the 99 (which I had just bought used, private sale, no warrantee, etc.) it sounded just like a connecting rod bearing going bad, right frequency and everything. Scared the crap out of me. Now I live with it. Some mornings it makes a strange chirping noise until it warms up too.