Ralleytuned
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Cle Elum, Wa
Well after getting this truck this summer and dropping about 600 bucks into it so far (radiator upgrade and removing of ABS system) we are finally putting some miles on the jeep this winter. Having a few issues and looking for some help!
first up is the biggest issue right now and that is that it just randomly started over heating on the way home from work. it was about 10deg outside and the drive was only 15mi but it took 2 hours to get home. The first thing i noticed was that the upper rad hose was not hot, so im thinking air bubble? the heater was also blowing cold.
now after that whole episode, the truck does not want to start. we had killed the batt on the way home (coasting down hill with the motor off an lights on, the batt is pretty old and needs replaced), and now with the new batt it does not want to start. it sat over night in sub 10deg weather. it fired right up but then ran out of gas, put some more in and got it to the driveway and it died and won't restart..
next up is running lights. no tail lights or running lights up front. i pulled all the plugs apart in the rear so nothing was hooked up and it still popped the fuse. ran out of fuses so didnt get much further than that. inspected all the lights up front and the running lights were done, so replacing those. When the truck was overheating we also noticed the headlights flikering a little bit and also got a nice wire burning smell and a little bit of smoke coming from the headlight switch area. there is also another large plug under the dash that is totally burnt up, but we can't find where it would plug into and most everything aside from the dash lights are workign in the car...
any help on any of these would be great, the fuel pump in my GTI crapped out so we started driving the jeep to work and then all this happened so trying to get this stuff sorted and get a reliable vehicle to get to work. thanks!!
first up is the biggest issue right now and that is that it just randomly started over heating on the way home from work. it was about 10deg outside and the drive was only 15mi but it took 2 hours to get home. The first thing i noticed was that the upper rad hose was not hot, so im thinking air bubble? the heater was also blowing cold.
now after that whole episode, the truck does not want to start. we had killed the batt on the way home (coasting down hill with the motor off an lights on, the batt is pretty old and needs replaced), and now with the new batt it does not want to start. it sat over night in sub 10deg weather. it fired right up but then ran out of gas, put some more in and got it to the driveway and it died and won't restart..
next up is running lights. no tail lights or running lights up front. i pulled all the plugs apart in the rear so nothing was hooked up and it still popped the fuse. ran out of fuses so didnt get much further than that. inspected all the lights up front and the running lights were done, so replacing those. When the truck was overheating we also noticed the headlights flikering a little bit and also got a nice wire burning smell and a little bit of smoke coming from the headlight switch area. there is also another large plug under the dash that is totally burnt up, but we can't find where it would plug into and most everything aside from the dash lights are workign in the car...
any help on any of these would be great, the fuel pump in my GTI crapped out so we started driving the jeep to work and then all this happened so trying to get this stuff sorted and get a reliable vehicle to get to work. thanks!!