- Location
- Torrance, CA
Now I've had Jeeps for ten years now. I've had a lot of little problems (and a few big ones) over the years, a few of them out of the ordinary, but this is the most bizarre issue I've ever seen on a Jeep....
As I was checking things out on the '96 I flipped the vents on to check the blower motor, it made a horrible sound so I quickly turned it off and looked around a bit. When I looked at the recirculating air intake (below the dashboard, passenger side) I saw these nuts in the plenum... Odd.
I figured I'd just clear them out, no big deal, right?
Well I tried to gently push the door up (that's the direction it opens), it wouldn't move.
I hooked a vacuum pump up to the diaphragm there (maybe it's holding solid?!), it wouldn't move.
So I figured it was jammed up and I'd remove the blower motor.
Umm.. What?
Oh sweet jesus!
The entire blower motor area of the plenum was filled with these nuts! The most bizarre part? They're too large to get in the cowl vent, in fact they're too large to get in from any place, they weren't carried in by rodents (no rodent damage, plus the whole size thing again), these things must have grown there, that's the only way.
Hell, you probably couldn't even stuff that many into it if you tried!
Three inches deep of nuts...
In a 9.5" x 9.5" bucket!
At least it'll be a good story for the future, although I'm sure there will be a lot of jokes about how my Jeep's fawking nuts.
Sequoia
As I was checking things out on the '96 I flipped the vents on to check the blower motor, it made a horrible sound so I quickly turned it off and looked around a bit. When I looked at the recirculating air intake (below the dashboard, passenger side) I saw these nuts in the plenum... Odd.
I figured I'd just clear them out, no big deal, right?
Well I tried to gently push the door up (that's the direction it opens), it wouldn't move.
I hooked a vacuum pump up to the diaphragm there (maybe it's holding solid?!), it wouldn't move.
So I figured it was jammed up and I'd remove the blower motor.
Umm.. What?
Oh sweet jesus!
The entire blower motor area of the plenum was filled with these nuts! The most bizarre part? They're too large to get in the cowl vent, in fact they're too large to get in from any place, they weren't carried in by rodents (no rodent damage, plus the whole size thing again), these things must have grown there, that's the only way.
Hell, you probably couldn't even stuff that many into it if you tried!
Three inches deep of nuts...
In a 9.5" x 9.5" bucket!
At least it'll be a good story for the future, although I'm sure there will be a lot of jokes about how my Jeep's fawking nuts.
Sequoia