Squidmonkey
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- San Diego, Ca
I6, Auto, 93 sport.
Driving to work last week when my jeep died on me. I didn't hear any odd sounds or anything out of the ordinary, just seemed like I ran out of gas. Called san diego's 511 and they brought me some gas, put it in, nothing happened. No start. had to have it towed home. Took the wifes car to work, got underway the next day, and when I came home to look at it, battery was dead (figure it is from repeated cranking trying to start it). Disconnected the battery (my first mistake) and took it to get it charged and tested. Everything is fine. Didn't hit me to think about checking for an engine code, until after I disconnected the battery. So now when I check for it, I just get the "battery disconnected last fifty cycles" code.
I had recently had a major problem a few months back where the O2 sensor wire had shorted out onto the exhaust manifold and caused a bunch of problems. In the process of that, brand new starter, new CPS, new fuel pump, new ignition coil.
I have a fuel pressure tester and I get 45 - 50 at the rail, and I also have spark going into the distributor cap, none coming out. This leads me to believe it's not the CPS. I replaced the cap and rotor, still had the same issue, so I took a friends advice and replaced my distributor (made sure TDC) still having the same issue. I think something might be wrong with the timing, but I'm not sure what could have caused it to just suddenly go bad while driving.
I've read up on stuff stuff about the possibility of it being the flex plate. I'm going to crawl underneath and check that. I'm also curious if I just keep cranking and trying to start the jeep 50 times, will that "battery disconnected" code go away and will it give me a real trouble code?
I'm getting rather annoyed here as not only is the jeep my toy, it's my daily driver, I can't be taking my wife's car from her as she is expecting in 3 weeks. I'm open to any ideas here, and I really hope that ramble made sense. In advance, Thanks . If there is a thread I missed during my search, my apologies for creating another one.
Driving to work last week when my jeep died on me. I didn't hear any odd sounds or anything out of the ordinary, just seemed like I ran out of gas. Called san diego's 511 and they brought me some gas, put it in, nothing happened. No start. had to have it towed home. Took the wifes car to work, got underway the next day, and when I came home to look at it, battery was dead (figure it is from repeated cranking trying to start it). Disconnected the battery (my first mistake) and took it to get it charged and tested. Everything is fine. Didn't hit me to think about checking for an engine code, until after I disconnected the battery. So now when I check for it, I just get the "battery disconnected last fifty cycles" code.
I had recently had a major problem a few months back where the O2 sensor wire had shorted out onto the exhaust manifold and caused a bunch of problems. In the process of that, brand new starter, new CPS, new fuel pump, new ignition coil.
I have a fuel pressure tester and I get 45 - 50 at the rail, and I also have spark going into the distributor cap, none coming out. This leads me to believe it's not the CPS. I replaced the cap and rotor, still had the same issue, so I took a friends advice and replaced my distributor (made sure TDC) still having the same issue. I think something might be wrong with the timing, but I'm not sure what could have caused it to just suddenly go bad while driving.
I've read up on stuff stuff about the possibility of it being the flex plate. I'm going to crawl underneath and check that. I'm also curious if I just keep cranking and trying to start the jeep 50 times, will that "battery disconnected" code go away and will it give me a real trouble code?
I'm getting rather annoyed here as not only is the jeep my toy, it's my daily driver, I can't be taking my wife's car from her as she is expecting in 3 weeks. I'm open to any ideas here, and I really hope that ramble made sense. In advance, Thanks . If there is a thread I missed during my search, my apologies for creating another one.
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