Hey guys, it's been a while. Life has kept me from wrenching on the Jeep but now that I'm getting back into things, good ol JJMP (Japanese Jeep Money Pit) has started hurling problems my way.
Scarcely a week after finally getting my driveline fixed with the SYE and Tom Woods drive shaft, the Jeep decided that "Nah, I don't want to start anymore unless you jump power direct to my sylenoid. Get wrecked." So, I've spent a while chasing down the problem and this is what I've found so far:
1. Turning the key does nothing.
2. The starter relay clicks when turning the key.
3. Pulling the relay I have constant power from one of the pins, and power at another when turning the key to start. (This, I think, eliminates the Fuse being bad and the NSS being faulty.)
4. I have constant power at the starter itself.
5. When turning the key to on, I have no power (12v) at the solenoid. So there's no power getting down to the Solenoid somewhere.
Best idea I have is that either from the fuse box under the hood, power isn't getting from there to the Solenoid or the Relay is bad despite it clicking. I'm going to test the relay tomorrow at the local Hobby Shop on the military base here to verify it's good. The only other thing I can do is find a pinout for the starter relay contacts and test continuity between that and the wire running to the solenoid to verify that the cable is good and not open. I thought about being risky and jumping the power at the relay terminals to the solenoid to see if I can get the starter to crank but I don't want to blow anything up.
Hoping that someone has some insights. I'm going to get this fixed and sell the Jeep locally on island because I'm really tired of constantly playing whack-a-mole trying to solve issues that crop up instead of doing fun things to the Jeep to make it cool.
--Zell
Scarcely a week after finally getting my driveline fixed with the SYE and Tom Woods drive shaft, the Jeep decided that "Nah, I don't want to start anymore unless you jump power direct to my sylenoid. Get wrecked." So, I've spent a while chasing down the problem and this is what I've found so far:
1. Turning the key does nothing.
2. The starter relay clicks when turning the key.
3. Pulling the relay I have constant power from one of the pins, and power at another when turning the key to start. (This, I think, eliminates the Fuse being bad and the NSS being faulty.)
4. I have constant power at the starter itself.
5. When turning the key to on, I have no power (12v) at the solenoid. So there's no power getting down to the Solenoid somewhere.
Best idea I have is that either from the fuse box under the hood, power isn't getting from there to the Solenoid or the Relay is bad despite it clicking. I'm going to test the relay tomorrow at the local Hobby Shop on the military base here to verify it's good. The only other thing I can do is find a pinout for the starter relay contacts and test continuity between that and the wire running to the solenoid to verify that the cable is good and not open. I thought about being risky and jumping the power at the relay terminals to the solenoid to see if I can get the starter to crank but I don't want to blow anything up.
Hoping that someone has some insights. I'm going to get this fixed and sell the Jeep locally on island because I'm really tired of constantly playing whack-a-mole trying to solve issues that crop up instead of doing fun things to the Jeep to make it cool.
--Zell
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