Yeah, that’s rust from the upper part of the axle tube right behind where the exhaust dumps. That area gets hot and cool and has rusted due to the stupid exhaust. Chunks of rust fell into the tub and spoiled the gear lube in the shaft. The gear oil was replaced about 2 weeks ago and the tube was cleaned about 1 week ago. The bearing on the shaft was actually still good, but it’s a situation that needs to be corrected.
I’ve been to MN. I go there once a year. I totally know why you park the Jeep for winter. The salt there must be terrible because the cars there are all rotted out. It’s unreal to see.
Yeah, auto electrical work isn’t my favorite either. I used those tap-a-circuit things in the fuse box behind the glove box;I hate electrical. I hope this is easy enough, but I gotta find a fuse to tap into that’s only when I turn the key on, and my instructions said “ground the brown wire” and I can’t find a brown wire.I also am wondering if I should put them under the seat covers or go under the actual stock fabric. I will need a few days to do this at the same time I do some sound deadening and BedRug. It will change the inside of the Jeep for sure.
Ultimately, I think my wife got the seat heaters for her. She’s a seat heater junkie.
Very clean and very helpful! I have a hardtop and all the parts for the rear wiper, but I’ve never put all the parts together. I’m familiar with that fuse board behind the glove box. I will look over my diagram and see what I can tap into because I really like how clean the tap a circuit solution is. I also have a stepped drill bit, so I can do that for the two switches. Very helpful wiring diagram too. Thank you so much for taking the time to post all this. Merry Christmas. It’s still the 25th here!
Ooh… heated steering wheel! My wife’s SUV has that and if I could figure out a clean way of doing it in anything I drive, I would
Heated seats in the jeep makes snow runs way more fun.
Gloves are on my list too. No one bought me any. The Viair 400P is also on the short term list.
ya i missed this ............1 is prefect shiny and clean........ and this 1 is contaminated. not all rusty either, some of that is shiny new shards.
again just a guess but could coincide with the rotational noise. as the pinion comes around under load it's pushin the ring and the carrier bearing gives it pushes offline, when the pinion tooth clears the stress relieves and you get that cluck when it comes back in.
Are you talking about the magnet that is sometimes on the back of the fill hole plug? I don't think it is magnetic. I did drain the fluid about 2 weeks ago. It was clean. There was nothing on the fill hole plug.
At church today I talked with a flight mechanic. He also dabbles in cars, but he's young. I mentioned my jeep has a problem somewhere in the diff. He said he had a problem one time. I said it sounds like glub, glub, glub and increases with road speed. He said he had that problem one time in his Toyota and if he recalled correctly it was the carrier bearing. I said, really? It sounded like this, and he said, yeah, and it got faster until it was just one sound.
it sucks nobody wants to chase a problem that deep but since other players have been cleared and the only witness of anything is the tainted tube fluid, it has to be investigated b4 you don't have any more hair to pull.
