Never ending!

[simontonbill]

Well I'm gonna rant a little. I've been having one problem after another (all minor) and it seems like just as soon as I fix one thing another pops up. Winter time is coming around to South Texas so I decided it was time to put the soft top on the YJ. I usually have a bikini top on 9 months a year and park the jeep under a carport with a cab cover. I was offshore for a month and my wife parked it under a tree, the cover blew off and when I got home the cab was full of leaves! I clean it all out and take it for a cruise and hit the brakes and a brake line blew! I get the brake line replaced after three trips to Napa and go for a test drive and the headlights go out. I go buy a new headlight switch and that doesn't fix it so I go get a high/low switch and now I've got brights and dash lights but no dims!!

Just about the time I'm gonna put a for sale sign on it the lights start working and my wife brings me a beer.

Now in reflection, I see that this is the whole reason I got a beach Jeep to begin with. Anybody could go buy a new one and put 2000 dollar rims and a big lift kit, but it's a lot of fun messin' around with a less than perfect vehicle. I salute all of yall that spend your evenin's wrenchin on these old things.

 

[ka041a]

when the vehicle sits out in the rain with no top on,rainwater can get into the steering column and dashboard and could be causing shorts in the headlight or hi-beam or other switches. i would try blowing them out with compressed air first. electrical problems are a specialty all to themselves, and require a painstaking trouble shooting procedure. when you blow out one brakeline the entire system needs to be rebuilt-safety item-! sounds like you have many fun and relaxing hours of jeep ownership ahead. good luck, john

 

[TerryMason]

If you left a 15 year old jeep in the rain with no top on for a month, and all you got was a shorted high beam switch, I'd call you lucky! Could you imagine if you had left the top down on your Saab or Mustang?

 

[ursman]

15 year old Jeep + rain + salt air = rubber & electrical problems. I'm thinking that just about every owner of an earlier model Jeep has had to deal with this at one time or another.