Project Swaparooni

Let me know if you need me to come drive it around for you. 😉

Nice, you found those evap hoses for me. 😀 oops

The saga continues..... Cammie drove the jeep to work and on the way home the check engine light came on.... again. She got home and the code thrown was the same as above, very small leak. so, I went over every hose and put on a ton of hose clamps. Google told me the most common cause was a leaky gas cap. so even though i put new one on in august I got another. To add insult to injury, Cammie was driving the jeep to get the computer to clear and she dropped Zach at school. She went to restart it and nothing... no power/ no start. So I run over there and check with a volt meter and realize that the positive battery lead wasn't tight. The battery read 12.2 and the bus into the fuse box read 9.4 volts. After tightening the positive lead all was good. It miraculously started. This again reset the computer. So the 100 plus miles I had driven in the past 2 days were all for not.



I utilized today to finish up the last few things. Fixed a broken body mount, Re plumbed the rear arb hose, installed the front bumper and wired the winch. The Front bumper required welding on the lower mount tabs. I had to cut these off to remove the bumper. With the welding I had to disconnect the battery and thus resetting the computer. With the evaporation leak I decided to do a smoke check to find the leak. I called around and local shops wanted to charge a hundred bucks. I said, no way. What I did was but a smoke machine fro party city and duct taped a hose and reduced the size down to push smoke into the vacuum system. No leaks showed up. I'm hoping my problem is simply a gas cap.



Drove it tonight and all but one computer test completed with no codes. Hallelujah!!!! This means I can go straight to the smog shop in the morning. Please say a prayer it passes. I can't take much more of this.

Pics of smoke test

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Inserted into vac line. Melted the hose I had taped to the smoke machine. That sucker gets hot!

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Good luck. I really hope this is it!

"Bender" wrote: Good luck. I really hope this is it!

X2

Waiting to pass the test. I hate waiting.....

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I had the gas cap problem before too. Bought a new one, and it still threw a code so I went to a different store, bought a different brand and it worked fine from then on. I hope this is the same case for you! Good luck!

Are you celebrating yet? Or driving to a cliff?

It PASSED!!!!!! No cliff for me. I think it was a gas cap problem. Stupid emissions...

However half wa y through the test the smog guy couldnt get his obd2 computer to recognize the jeep. I have a blue tooth reader that was working as I pulled into the smog shop. You gotta be kidding me! The smog guy tried everything including rebooting his computer. No luck. I pulled the jeep out into the paking lot and messed with it.eventually I got my bluetooth reader to work again by cycling the ignition on and off. I realizd d what had happened was the bluetooth reader was pulled out of the obd port with being shut down. This screwed up the computer and needed to be cycled to be reset. This time the smog shop reader worked and the Jeep finally passed. Thank God....



The buyer is on his way to pick up the jeep as I'm typing this. Its a good day. Thanks for everyone's help and support.

Woohoo!!!!! Awesome!!

Its gone the buyer came and picked her up. Of course we had to go do a shake down run at prairie city. At first I was a little nervous but it performed better than expected.

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Great test drive!



Congratulations

The smog ordeal cost me around 49 days, 592 miles, $1, 913. Not including gas. What a pita. However, I gained a ton of knowledge and have expanded my skill set immensely. Also I got to hang out with some prety cool people at the work parties. Thanks for everyone's help.



Now its time to return to normal and go wheeling instead of wrenching.

Mason says by by Jeep....

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Wow, what a sigh of relief.

Congrats Bill! That is good news. I'm happy for you. The buyer got a good Jeep with a strong motor now!

Thanks Josh. Did you leave a red hat here?

"lj4x4" wrote: Thanks Josh. Did you leave a red hat here?

Hat? No. Not mine.

Must be Carl's

I purchased an older esab migmaster 250 from my step dad. I got it for a steal mainly because the feed mechanism didn't work. I asked my friend Google and he said the problem might be the micro switch in the gun. So, I decided to bite the bullet and get a new switch. Low and behold Google was right. The switch fixed the problem.

Since the welder was working I thought it was time to re configure my bumper.

The plan is to put clevis tabs in, make it a shorty, and intigrate the winch mount.

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This afternoon I busted out the portaband and cut her up. I sectioned five inches out of both sides. And cut the holes for the clevis tabs. These tabs are stout! They are from ruffstuff and are bad to the bone. This weld looks a little beter than the first try last night. Hope finish tomorrow.

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Next I have to weld it back together and gusset it.

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