Just noticed that that error may be too thick an oil - this will destroy an engine really quick - they really like the thinner oils.
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Originally Posted by v8_jofes
Went to look at a 2004 4.7L Limited today. 129,000km on the clock, asking just under $15K for it.
Test drive was ok, seems nice and smooth. Car history report doesn't reveal any accidents or claims against it, body looks good, no evidence of any crashes.
Current owner has only had it for about 8months, bought it after it was repossesed, so unfortunately I don't know as much of the history as I'd like.
Checked the fault codes and one did come up, P0523 - Oil Pressure Sensor High. Not sure if that is a current fault or something logged in there from a previous trip.
Blend doors are working fine, went from cold to hot and back again.
The only other noticeable thing was, after shutting down the engine, after about 60sec it has a weird murmor noise from inside the firewall on the passenger side, kind of like the blend doors or something similar opening and closing four or five times. Standard on other Limited's or something I should be worried about?
Just noticed that that error may be too thick an oil - this will destroy an engine really quick - they really like the thinner oils.
Hmm, thanks for that mate, I'll be servicing it soon and swapping out the oil, but since purchasing it, that fault has disappeared anyway.
So, I'm back from the Jeep mother land, and the black one will be on it's way up to Qld at the end of this week, time to start transferring everything over to the new one!!
Also bought some front recovery hooks from IRO, who else has these, and what brackets did you fabricate to fit these?
So the black Jeep finally arrived last weekend, much thanks to my Dad and Brother for trailering it all the way from Vic to Qld!!
During the week I've installed my new head unit, and transferred my speakers and amps from the old, to the new. Also replaced my handbrake sensor while I was at it. It's marvelous having a spare parts car!!
This week I'm planning to service the engine, change the boot door struts, wire in and install my lights for the roof and purchase and install a new UHF, probably a GME 80 channel one.
I'm also working on getting a better place to work on it, so I can tear down the old Jeep completely and transfer the lift kit over, as well as take off the bits and pieces I want to keep, before selling what ever is left for scrap, so if someone is keen for a certian piece that I might have, pm me.
Anyway, here's some pics.
Who says you need ramps to unload?
Time to get started on it!
Relatively untidy wiring of the amps under the rear seats in the black Jeep
Radio fascia pops off pretty easily
Wiring is made so much easier when you buy the right equipment! I ended up removing a lot of the speaker wires from the plug, as I was using the pre-outs from the head unit, those wires were just going to get in the way.
Locating the correct wire for the steering wheel interface unit (so I can still use my factory controls for volume, next track etc)
It's the orange wire with yellow trace, seen here on the grey plug on the far left.
Alpine plug for the head unit soldered to the plug for the factory harness, plus I decided to splice in power etc for the steering wheel interface unit here too.
I hope that was the correct wire.....
Pretty much the only problem I had during the installation was that the new fascia had rectangular tabs trying to fit into a round hole. A drill soon fixed that problem
Aaaand it's in!! Now I just have the speakers and amps to do!! It also came with a handy bluetooth interface for the phone, so I ran the microphone for it up above the drivers head, near the entrance/egress assist handles.
The broken, and replacement handbrake sensors.
Speakers and amplifier power cable still to go in.
Poking a hole through the gromet to run the thick power cable for the amps. After poking that hole, I got an old coat hanger, poked it through, twisted it around the thick power cable on the inside of the car, and pulled it back through.
Ran power cable under the carpet, on drivers side. Tucks away neatly down there.
Tidier than the other car, but not as tidy as I'd like it. I'll evntually make it a little neater. The cavity in the metal work that the rear seats sit directly on provides an excellent place to store the remaining coiled wire. I didn't want to cut it down to length just yet, as I may yet move the amps somewhere higher, and less prone to water.
Sub in the boot, tied down (not in this pic) so it doesn't jump into the front.
That's all for now, maybe more next week.
Oh, and, my pile of stuff I bought while I was away hahah
Well, between moving house and working during the week, I've managed to get a little done in my down time.
Gave it a good service a week or two ago, new air filter, oil filter, new oil, new spark plugs.
There certainly wasn't much left of the old plugs!!
Then the blac one was back on another trailer up to my mates place where I'll be doing most of the work.
And this is my mates resident python, nick named Monty, in the shed where my good Jeep will be!! :/
New and old, ready for the swap to begin
Got started on the rear axle after salvaging my new extractors and relatively new starter motor for spares.
I'm going to straight swap the axles so I can have quadradrive straight away, rather than trying to swap just the diff centres and ending up having to re-mesh the gears etc.
I have new brake pads and new park brake pads ready to go on, I'll use the discs off the black Jeep as they were relatively new anyway. Removing the brake calipers rather than disconnecting them means I don't have to do a bleed later.
Rear axle out.
Jobs for this week include taking the extractors to the exhaust shop to have the two extra oxygen sensors put in, something I never did the first time round, and then starting the tear down of the rear of the blue Jeep to prepare it for the kit.
Haven't had a chance to get on for a while, here's a quick update:
The rear is pretty much done, just need to re-install the anti roll bar.
With the proper bump stop extensions in, and the axle in around-about the right spot, there is only a tiny bit of rubbing on the guards at full flex, which I'm pleased about. I'll start trimming more off the bump stops as I trim the guards and install the flares.
Tomorrow I'm hoping to get the front finished. The front axle is out at the moment, and we are just removing the last few bolts on the drivers side headers (PIA of a job) so I can fit my after market headers.
Speaking of which, I've had the extra O2 sensor positions welded in, so I can install all 4 O2 plugs this time and not have a mil light on constantly, like I did in the black Jeep. I also had a 2.5" high flow cat welded on after a flex joint following the y piece in the exhaust.
My goal at the moment is to have it driveable again by the end of the weekend so I can take it to the exhaust shop next week and have the tail pipe re-connected.
On a side note, I never thought removing and re-installing the parking brakes would be such a drama!! Took me a lot longer than expected to get those buggers back on again on the new axles (quadradrive axles from black jeep)
Just a quick one, it's out of the shed, and I drove it home tonight, yay!!
Nice firm, quiet, comfortable ride with everything installed.
Yet to do:
Exhaust shop later this week for the tail pip to be connected and exhaust finished
Get a wheel alignment done
Trim guards properly and fit flares
Fit snorkel
Fit aux headlights
Fit CB Radio
Wash it haha
Pack for Jambo!!
It has the 4" extended bumpstops, I just didn't have time to test the flex and clearance before leaving for Jambo, angle grinder will be coming out soon to take some more out of the body
Very capable machine by the looks of it and sounds great too.... You're certainly not scared to give it some herbs either!
I liked the video editing as well as I hate having to fast forward through those boring bits in 4WD videos on YouTube Your cameraman (a mate I presume?) was obviously enjoying himself watching you point and shoot....
Thanks mate, I think I fluked the v8 note, it sounds exactly the way I imagined!! (Has hurricane headers, high flow 2.5" Cat, straight through 2.5" muffler and stock tail pipe)
Always willing to give it a boot full when I can, I didn't build it to crawl around at the shops
I tried to keep this video short and sweet. I used Pinnacle Studio 15 for the editing, and it took me a few goes to get it right, the original settings messed me around for a little (kept re-rendering the 25fps camera shots to 30fps which would take ages to process)
This was the first time my mate had really done any video recording, which is why some shots are a little out of focus, but he did a bloody brilliant job IMO and I was so grateful of him being there to capture it all!!
All the video was shot on a Nikon D7000 with a 10-24mm lens, sometimes on a tripod, sometimes hand held
Glad you enjoyed it, I'll be editing and posting more videos of my daily Jambo experience, so keep an eye out
very smooth man something about the 4.7 sound that is unlike all the other v8's around. Not sure what makes them sound so good, but definitely one of my favorites.
Nice job.. Quick question, how do find the hurricane headers? Any issues? Big difference? I'm thinking of placing these on the other wj we have as standard manifold has a crack.. And these are cheaper than standard.
Also what backspace are you running of your rims? 4.75"?
Nice job.. Quick question, how do find the hurricane headers? Any issues? Big difference? I'm thinking of placing these on the other wj we have as standard manifold has a crack.. And these are cheaper than standard.
Also what backspace are you running of your rims? 4.75"?
That's pretty much the same reason I replaced them on the first engine, plus I firgured they would have to give some sort of performance increase, as they are free-er flowing than the stock headers.
Biggest issues I've really had with them has been the oxygen sensors. The original system had 4, but they would normally plug in right next to the mini cats at the front, but the headers replace all that piping. I put all 4 sensors in this exhaust, but didn't have the back two behind the main cat, so the system spat all sorts of fault codes saying the cat was faulty etc, and ran the engine rich as a safety measure. I d'connected the two front ones, so it only has one sensor per bank at the moment (so it just thinks the sensors have died, not the cat, therefore runs normal fuel/air mix) I just need to take it back to the exhaust centre and move the two rear sesnors aft of the new cat, and see how that goes once everything is re-connected.
As for performance, I was planning on doing one step at a time, and getting dyno results to see what difference they actually made, but I ran out of time coming up to Jambo, so put everything on at once (incl bigger tyres) so I really can't say what difference they've made (apart from noise) as I wouldn't notice any performance increase or economy increase, because the diffs haven't been re-geared for the tyres, so the engine's working a lot harder for them anyway.
Cheers bud, well ill take a punt and buy these.. Get a full exhaust done up with a dump like my grand. Love the sound it makes.
Guessing they are a 4.5" backspace as they are 17x9.. Can't make my mind up between mickey thompson sidebiters or classic look 2 need to buy some soon to use as a road set...
Cheers bud, well ill take a punt and buy these.. Get a full exhaust done up with a dump like my grand. Love the sound it makes.
Guessing they are a 4.5" backspace as they are 17x9.. Can't make my mind up between mickey thompson sidebiters or classic look 2 need to buy some soon to use as a road set...
I've watched the full throttle parts of my vid over and over for that v8 music haha, it's actually a lot quieter in the car than I expected!
Wheels are 16x8 too, not 17x9. And I just realised that if you go back far enough in this thread, I would've posted the specs for them, so you could confirm the BS if you felt like trawling through this thread (even I forget how far back this thread goes haha)
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Your cameraman (a mate I presume?) was obviously enjoying himself watching you point and shoot....
