eaglescout526

You know what I bet that rattle is? If you go under the engine and look at your exhaust pipe at the end of the oil pan is a clamp probably free hanging, see if that's your possible rattle.

Couple questions. Do you have a mechanical gauge hooked up to where the sending unit or sensor is? Or is this coming from the cluster? If you have a cluster, Renix does a self test of the gauges that start from zero and peg out and come to the reading from the sensor as I'm sure you know with your experience. Now when you say rattle from the engine, do you know where the rattle comes from in the engine/engine bay? My guess is something in the bay is loose and hitting against something. Unfortunately how Renix runs the motor at start up is to run it at 3000 to get the oil flowing, depending on outside temp the high revs will help heat the air and the alt charging the battery. Theres not a whole lot of ways to stop that unless you start the truck every day and your RPMs could be lower at start up. I know mine will get close to 3000 on the first start up of the day. But if she sits for a couple days ill see 3k at start up.

Ok makes much more sense now. A good healthy engine will have 50-60 psi at start up and come down to 30-40 psi once at op-temp. I would suspect the oil pressure sending unit or sensor to be faulty at start up or something weird is up with the electrical connection to it. Do you have full cluster package or idiot lights? Rear XJ flares do not fit unless you do some good split down the middle cutting and bonding the complete halves to make a whole MJ rear flare. Time consuming and costly but worth it if you can't find original flares.

I am confused as to what the outlying problem is here. First it was fender flares. Then 0-3000 RPM on a 2.5L at start up(Normal for Renix) and now we are at no oil pressure at start up. I would like to help but lets put some ducks in a row.

Not sure if he has sold them yet but here's two options.

Now you can use the 2.5L overflow bottle.

EGR solenoid, yes you do if you have emissions in Flroida.

T-Jeep 2wd L-Low price line 61-shortbed And no problem.

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Need a CC module? I got a few as I'm trying to get kits together.

Usually a good way to test the fan clutch is with the engine off and just see how easy it spins. You want a good chunk of resistance when trying to spin the fan. Yes thats normal oil pressure when the engine is warming up.

Check to see if the e-fan comes on when it needs to and test it to make sure it does operate and check the fan clutch. Usually the fan clutch will be very free spinning if it has failed.

Usually sitting idle and the temp climbs usually points to the fans or debris being in the coils of the condenser and radiator. If it was while you were driving it would be the other parts of the cooling system.

Was the high temp at idle or just driving around? Answering this will determine further answers for us to give ya.

This was before AC. Now I will say when I turn both sliders to heat, I get heat out of the bottom floor vent and it is really warm. But when I slide to "Vents" the heat gets cold and would be my guess of cold air coming in and cooling off the core. But even then before AC it wasn't a noticeable issue. Sometimes reading the owners manual on this goes a long ways but I still never remember what is said in the book lol. I havent deleted the valve and I remember checking one cold morn to see if it was functioning and it was, just heat would come out luke warm from the vents but hot from the floor. I'll remember to clock the heat temps in the winter.

Possibly but heat was fantastically blistering in the winter for me so I'm not sure why adding an evap would change the temp of the heat from the core.

I feel this is a common problem after installing AC into a non AC truck. The only thing I can think of that I didn't do was clean and prep the heater core before installing everything. Course I cleaned out the inside of the box where the core is but not internally of the core.

Well Minuit's idea makes me want to drive around in this then: But after alot of thought id just drive around in a 57 T-bird.

Do please show such tag. I am interested if it can be replicated.

http://downeyproductsnortheast.com/ Select the year and such and youll get the cover you want.

See now you won't have to worry about the weather and say stuff you don't want wet in the bed. Itll pay off, can't wait to put mine back on once the intensity of the heat and sun have passed.

Oh yeah, well worth it huh?

Little update. I put the carb on and put spark plugs in and it only fired on two cylinders. Started removing wires for spark plug removal and learned I need new wires. Second on the last crank before I left the car the key got stuck. So I got the key out and took the ignition switch out and replaced it with a new one along with the cylinder with a NOS ford cylinder with keys. Thanks to jdog he took the old one apart and discovered the old one was cracked where the tumblers go. Hopefully more to come. So far I can’t get the headlights to come on which is annoying and some things actually still work. First is to make sure the engine will run, then brake work and then driving.

My grand father has a 2 door version just rotting away in his back yard. Ill think about my favorite car to put around in a post it later.

Auto stores carry the later years like 91+. Ive never found the old ones except team Cherokee.