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In case this is useful in the future. cleaning PCM connector C (the one with CCD/SCI bus wiring) cleared it up. all 3 on hand clusters work just fine too, btw.

I used to see more than my two and considering how close I live to this particular streetsign I've been wanting to manifest destiny upon for decades now that kinda bums me out, it's been a few years now since I've regularly seen any around other than mine.

This one got me stumped. only saw "no bus" once, 3 different clusters have the same symptoms, oil gauge ALWAYS goes to first notch & stops when the gauges should wake up. Just gauge operation was intermittent for a bit but now it's done for. indicator lights and odometer work airbag light been intermittent for a while now so I'm wondering if possibly the clockspring is somehow involved? lost the "you forgot your key" chime during this most recent attempt to get gauges again with a pair of other clusters to try. I'm trying very hard not to do the TSB procedure on the 2nd cluster connector that says "Using wire cutters, remove the instrument cluster harness connector from the harness." because that same TSB tells me I should have a "no bus" indicator in the odometer when I lose gauges and I don't. (the cluster that gave me that message was a "possibly bad" one I tried a while back, not one of the current 3 that are all doing the exact same thing when I plug them into this Jeep) It's the hangup of the oil gauge when the gauges would otherwise wake up consistently happening to all 3 that really has me perplexed. cleaned all the connectors as advised in the TSB as well. (this one: https://www.tsbsearch.com/Jeep/08-15-99 ) Been a while since I've been on here, gotta update my signature. lol.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/UUfEMDkDQNCZpc1M6 the video. my 5.9 is gutless old turd, lol.

Ain't slowed down yet but I'm still alive and kickin' lol. and yes there will be PLENTY of videos.

If ya do, and live near the bald eagle sanctuary. I'm entering my 5.9 ZJ in the Cleetus & Cars 2K19 $5000 burnout contest this saturday @ Bradenton Motorsports Park in Bradenton, FL. Come watch me make poor life decisions with my daily driver! (It's okay. I am overly experienced in taking this type of risk...lol) Blow 'em out or blow it up, one of those outcomes will happen this saturday saturday saturday! http://bradentonmotorsports.com/ ***EDIT*** https://photos.app.goo.gl/UUfEMDkDQNCZpc1M6 blew one out, lost power steering, of all things!

it's still a little toed out so it kinda feels like 737 max right now, lol. and yea, JTEC PCM w/ that silly RE series trans with frequency valve driven governor simulation electronics.

it's loading a PXE option rom and trying to boot from the network for some reason. likely scenario is hard drive acting up. depending on the drive it could be time to backup and replace, or if it's an older SSD it may just need a firmware update (crucial M4 SSDs are notorious for doing this, and a FW update actually fixes it!) if you can extrapolate what hard drive is in it (may even be worth removing the cover and looking by eye) and it is an SSD, look for a firmware update and apply it if available. also many laptops now have these small ribbon cables on the connector between the hard drive and the mainboard, these fail over time from chassis flex and heat cycling. (replacing the hard drive could still lead to this symptom returning in this case.) Good luck!

seriously... an intermittent signal from a $17 coolant temp sensor can make this thing act like it's got a blown head gasket, complete with the faux hydrolock syndrome of coolant pushing into the cylinders while starting! apparently this thing can and DOES dump THAT MUCH FUEL into it on startup because the entire map is based on multipliers with baseline duty cycle set by the CTS... I'm absolutely amazed by this persnickity little MFer. 2 days ago it decided to say it was 170deg after sitting overnight and it acted way better on startup. The odd thing is while it was acting all stupid, the gauge was reading properly but every once and a while it would "ding" and "check gauges" would flash for just a brief moment... You'd think this sophisticated JTEC engine controller would buffer and average sensor inputs over a time window... NOPE!

yeah, I think I'd have that engine/trans out and getting refreshed to drop in another chassis at this point... if it were me. but I have chassis' around waiting for powertrains.

nagca.com and mallcrawlin.net are alright i didn't say they're GOOD... they're alright.

i guess it's semi homemade... random dude on a fiero forum is making and selling them. design is simple and can be cloned fairly easily.

I'm happy to hear the US still appears that way on the outside, but national pride is surely on the decline over here too. People are losing faith in the opportunity of freedom and apparently want to be herded and provided for by a large oppressive government... or at least that's what people are voting for whether they realize it or not. They somehow believe in this concept of guaranteed affluence... boggles my mind.

fugg it, lets keep hijacking... you wouldn't happen to know Lionel Wilson would you? he's an architect from Cape Town, does a lot of work here in Florida, my cousin just got married to him and they're in NZ on the honeymoon right now then they're heading "home" for a little bit until they come back stateside. super cool people!

i also started collecting jeep models/RCs/diecast, etc... if you want "recovery" help from your addiction, you won't get it here. we're enablers. haahaha!