Recent content by BDHershey

Oh, by the way it did turn out to be the alternator was bad. I'd died on the side of the road two days later. Swapped out the alternator and replaced the belt and all is good to go. I though the A/C compressor might have been going too as the wife was complaining the air was intermittent, but...

Hey guys! Me again with an A/C question. I have a '99 Cherokee Sport 4wd, 4.0 with 157K miles. Recently the a/c has become intermittent. I think the alternator is going bad as I asked about in my post here. My wife has come home several times now saying the air is blowing out hot. When I...

Hey guys, Newbie here looking for some help with what I think MAY be a bad alternator. I have a '99 Cherokee Sport 4wd Auto, 4.0L. This is my wife's daily driver and has right around 157K on it. For the past week or so the voltage on the dash gauge will drop to around 9 and the check gauges...

Hey guys I posted the other week about my intermitent check engine light, and the error codes I got indicating no trans mission to the TCU, etc. The Jeep had been running fine though, and the light would come on a few days then go off a few days. Well this weekend it became very difficult to...

Happened to my 99 in April. It was stuck for a few days. Just had to keep working it. I sprayed what lube I could get into it. All of a sudden it just opened. Took the panel off and cleaned everything up well. -Hershey

Hey guys any suggestions on where to find a TCU or TCM? If I go to the salvage yard are they pretty interchangeable or do I need to look for another '99? Also I was reading somewhere else on here that the TPS and TCM work pretty close together and that sometimes the TPS can cause tranny probs...

Update... Light was off for about a week. But has now come back on. Disconnected/reconnected the TCU again and light is still on. Truck runs fine, and shifts fine, no problems there. But my wife and I switched rides for mileage reasons and am afraid that it may leave her stranded. Are...

Last night I did unplug/replug. The contacts looked pretty clean thoug. We'll see what that does. Thanks for the help so far! -Hershey

Update.... I think I found the TCU. On the center console stack in the drivers foot well? I saw it described somewhere else as about 4"x4" give or take. Silver. Aisin or something like that on it. That's what this looks like. Connections seemed firm. I didn't disconnect. If/when I do...

I had the A/C evaporator replaced a month or two ago at the dealership. I was told they would have to tear down the dash. Possible reason? Though it has just started. Where is the TCU located, I haven't found a reference to it in my Haynes either. -Hershey

How long has that been? I can't even find these codes in my Haynes manual. -Hershey

Twice in the last two weeks the check engine light in my '99 XJ Sport (with 4wd, 4.0, and Automatic tran) has come on and then gone off after a day or so. I was in getting new tires at the Goodyear where my buddy works and he plugged it in to their diagnostic machine and got error codes: P1698...

Actually, its a shady garage, but I definately see your point! Looking at the removal routine in my Hayne's manual, it definately seems a PITA. I just hate to pay someone to fix something I can do myself, especially that kind of money. But on the other hand I am not a mechanic and I didn't...

How difficult a job is this to perform on your own? Mine is kaput and the dealership qouted me $1200 bucks! It just doesn't seem that it would be that difficult to get the dash apart to get to it! If I had a buddy pull all the charge out of the system, which since the compressor wont run...

You know no one ever said anything about health effects of freon and I guess I never really thought about it... It seemed to be leaking from the dispenser fitting not from the valve. And to clarify, with the trigger not depressed there was no escape of gas. It was only when I would depress...