jackbeaugureau
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truck is badass!
Local Legend Vital Designs Regular Cab Ranger
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Been driving it to work/around town every couple days. Really need to sort the exhaust out haha thing sounds like a 98 Honda civic on the chip anytime it’s over 2500ish rpm.
The picture by the pond I take dirt to get to and man is it fun. Links and bypasses on all 4 corners is insane. The trail to the pond is nothing crazy but absolutely zero hesitation about if the truck will handle what is coming up is so nice. Before with just the coilover/bump front end and the bolt on 2.0 stock leaf rear I had confidence in it but it was always the what about the rear… skipping the usual bypass and deavers stage on the rear was so worth it. And I’ve always heard how driving a caged vehicle has that stout solid feeling and I see what people mean now.
Love this thing!!
BlackJacket705
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Super clean, and I love the fact it doesn't have raptor glass.
Thanks haha never!!! Only other glass I would ever consider would be an expo conversion front clip. Pretty sure no one makes them anymore tho
Been driving the truck all around town, to work etc. Finally got it in some dirt today, around 80 miles on the day.
I’ve had a power steering issue where the power steering will go out at lower RPM like say turning into a driveway or backing out of a parking spot. The truck does have the Jeep liberty Saginaw pump swap. It would go days without doing it, then randomly cut out. The website that sells the swap kit says switch to a smaller PSC pulley so I got that. Did a bunch of driving around town trying to get it to cut out and it seemed fixed. Then I drove it to work the next day and it cut out when I went to park.
It does come back when I rev it, the smaller pulley seems to bring it back quicker than the stock size would. I was following my dad up some jeep trails today (lol) and when it would come time to do my 69 point turn to turn around it would cut out and man it was a pain in the dick haha.
Appears I do have a small power steering leak I have to trace down.
Have plans for some exhaust work soon, the truck at 2600 rpm under load gets insanely loud and sounds like absolute ass. We think maybe with the X pipe being so far back and the mufflers being immediately after that might be the problem. Any input on fixes? Pretty sure we’re just gonna end up putting another set of mufflers before the X pipe, under the cab, to hopefully quiet it down.
Otherwise truck drives great, stops on a dime, drives straight as an arrow.
I’ve had a power steering issue where the power steering will go out at lower RPM like say turning into a driveway or backing out of a parking spot. The truck does have the Jeep liberty Saginaw pump swap. It would go days without doing it, then randomly cut out. The website that sells the swap kit says switch to a smaller PSC pulley so I got that. Did a bunch of driving around town trying to get it to cut out and it seemed fixed. Then I drove it to work the next day and it cut out when I went to park.
It does come back when I rev it, the smaller pulley seems to bring it back quicker than the stock size would. I was following my dad up some jeep trails today (lol) and when it would come time to do my 69 point turn to turn around it would cut out and man it was a pain in the dick haha.
Appears I do have a small power steering leak I have to trace down.
Have plans for some exhaust work soon, the truck at 2600 rpm under load gets insanely loud and sounds like absolute ass. We think maybe with the X pipe being so far back and the mufflers being immediately after that might be the problem. Any input on fixes? Pretty sure we’re just gonna end up putting another set of mufflers before the X pipe, under the cab, to hopefully quiet it down.
Otherwise truck drives great, stops on a dime, drives straight as an arrow.
I’ve never seen anyone mention it happening, granted they’re usually just on a stock truck with stock steering and not a bunch of FK heims. @Thicks91 has the same issue on just a stock explorer. I might stop by Howe and see what Jeff has to say about why it happens, and I’m sure get talked into some sort of Howe pump haha
Ya I thought it was just a faulty pump. It was always glitchy when I first installed it like it still had air in the system but never went away then one day I took it for a drive and when I went to go get back in the truck after running inside a store it was rock hard. Scratched my head a few minutes. Brought the Rpm’s up a-little and it came back. It’s happened a few times in the past year,
Also been thinking about resonators. Will have to read more into it vs a muffler
the_fablab_
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Sounds like air in the system to me. I have the same pump on my Explorer, PSC 8inch 1.5 ram, PSC Jeep JT steering gear, turns 40’s no problem. You can push the truck side to side by driving next to a big rock with the power steering with two fingers. I bought the cheapest Jeep Liberty pump I could find on Amazon too.
I’ll try and do some bleeding again. I haven’t done it since it was first put in, so maybe it needs a second bleeding session after a few months of driving. Any tips on bleeding?
the_fablab_
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Just make sure you are cycling everything fully. If not disconnect some stuff and a leaky power steering system is probably not helping you any
charlie brown
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i have had several problems with PS. many trips and calls with pss. found out that my return hose was not big enough. was skeptical about it because it has been in service for year (10years) with no problems. but i swapped it for a bigger one and all problems went away.
its been a while and have ben working on there projects but i think it was a -6 pressure and -8 return. went up to a -10 or -12
its been a while and have ben working on there projects but i think it was a -6 pressure and -8 return. went up to a -10 or -12
Well I finally had a bug pop up.
I decided to teach my 16 year old nephew how to drive manual in it, he did great and was cruising within 20 minutes. The 10ish times he stalled it, everytime we’d go to start back up it wouldn’t fire up/crank like normal right away. I’m wondering if this was the start of the problem or contributed to it. I honestly don’t know, because I haven’t stalled the truck myself in years haha.
But next day I went to drive it to work and backing out of my driveway, when I went to turn and leave it wanted to die. After I got going it was acting like the fuel delivery was struggling, no voltage dips while staying at 14v. Thought I might be low on gas (my gas gauge isn’t wired up yet, and I can tell with how the truck rides if it’s low on gas) so I stopped and put 25 gallons in. Leaving the gas station, it’s a decent down hill driveway and the truck sputtered and shut off. Running late I still drove it to work and back. At stop lights I could occasionally feel the truck starting to drop in RPM and I would apply light throttle to keep the RPM up.
Took it on another test drive this morning after tightening up the power wire to my fuel pump wondering if that was it, didn’t help. Had the truck completely die when I was turning.
Figured i would check the fuel filters, thought it might be the paint from the inside of my fuel filler neck clogging stuff up or just something random. Got the pre filter off and there was a light gunk looking shit in the end of it but the filter itself is 99% clear. No fuel cell foam in the cell. Checked all fuel pump wiring and everything checks out.
Going to start from the front and work my way back, checking IAC sensors etc. Christian said to check if the fuel pick up line is actually on the bottom and not just floating and I plan to do that.
Thought I would post here and see if anyone had input!
I decided to teach my 16 year old nephew how to drive manual in it, he did great and was cruising within 20 minutes. The 10ish times he stalled it, everytime we’d go to start back up it wouldn’t fire up/crank like normal right away. I’m wondering if this was the start of the problem or contributed to it. I honestly don’t know, because I haven’t stalled the truck myself in years haha.
But next day I went to drive it to work and backing out of my driveway, when I went to turn and leave it wanted to die. After I got going it was acting like the fuel delivery was struggling, no voltage dips while staying at 14v. Thought I might be low on gas (my gas gauge isn’t wired up yet, and I can tell with how the truck rides if it’s low on gas) so I stopped and put 25 gallons in. Leaving the gas station, it’s a decent down hill driveway and the truck sputtered and shut off. Running late I still drove it to work and back. At stop lights I could occasionally feel the truck starting to drop in RPM and I would apply light throttle to keep the RPM up.
Took it on another test drive this morning after tightening up the power wire to my fuel pump wondering if that was it, didn’t help. Had the truck completely die when I was turning.
Figured i would check the fuel filters, thought it might be the paint from the inside of my fuel filler neck clogging stuff up or just something random. Got the pre filter off and there was a light gunk looking shit in the end of it but the filter itself is 99% clear. No fuel cell foam in the cell. Checked all fuel pump wiring and everything checks out.
Going to start from the front and work my way back, checking IAC sensors etc. Christian said to check if the fuel pick up line is actually on the bottom and not just floating and I plan to do that.
Thought I would post here and see if anyone had input!
Matt67ss
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Sounds like a IAC issue or a air/ vacuum leak to me just based on your description.
Cleandezert
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man, could be anything. I chased a fuel pump issue for weeks. I could drive my truck around town. But as soon as i got onto a freeway onramp the truck would die... let it sit for a minute and then i could drive everywhere without an issue. Took forever to figure out, but after 3 new pumps it finally fixed it. These were all the old pierburg pumps from like 20 years ago. lol But man i hate chasing fuel issues.
I also had a pick up hose swell and split next to the top of the tank and suck air.
I also had a pick up hose swell and split next to the top of the tank and suck air.
_Cole_Taylor_
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Unplug the MAF and see what it does should send it to the factory computer fuel trims see if that is better, if so there’s your issue. I fought a couple bad orielly/ vatozone MAFs and IAC
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