AnotherOldJeepGuy

REM Gauge Readouts Engine 0705.pdf

Great!

Got a new one good through Sept 25... 349948498172570460

There are actual bulbs in the fixture, perhaps they have burnt out?

I went over a took a look and it turns out these were not metal, and it just looks like pieces of RTV from removing the pan. So doesn't look like there's a problem here! Glad it wasn't metal pieces afterall!

My son pulled his oil pan to put in a new gasket, and maybe a new pan cause the drain plug location is a little messed up / bent, and he sent me the pic below. He said he doesn't really see where the chips in the pan came from. The car is running well just has an oil leak. Any thoughts on where these might have come from? I'm going to ask him to double check they are really metal with a magnet, cause just from the pic it looks like it could possibly be pieces of the old gasket to me, but all I have to go by is the pic. Any thoughts?

Look closely at the contacts for the solenoid on the control board, I believe that was my issue...

If I were in your sitch I guess I'd swap the headlight bulbs just to rule out it isn't just a bad bulb. And of course check the voltage with DMM at the bulb connector.

I got an email from the Jeep folks that says they are planning to honor "all eligible badge requests". They didn't go into detail how they define an eligible badge request. But the potential is still out there.

I have bench.

I am the original owner of my particular 90 and I can vouch that these have never been touched since the day I drove it off the lot. Judging from this conversation, it would appear there are at least 2 different OEM nuts for this use .

Got the PCB cleaned up and put it back in for a test, all wiper operations are good! The vinegar was very foggy so it did pull off some crud. The large cap that @The86manche noted before actually looks fine (no deformity) once viewed with better focus looking at that cap. I think the most likely future failure may be the solenoid spring. I may take a look at the HW store to see if they have any springs that look the same, but swapping it would be risky cause the same "looking" spring may not have the same tension and I am not sure I could get the old one off and back on still in tack if needed. I'll soak it with a drop or 2 of oil before final reassembly and hope for the best! The old formed foam was dried up and crumbling so I threw it out and did not attempt to replace it. Not sure it was useful anyway.

Gotcha, thanks! I will let the vinegar clean probably for 24 hours, don't really know it needs that long but that's how long I soaked my blower control, then let it dry real good and then see what happens.

Opened up the module to take a look. You get in by drilling out four rivets that holed it together. The coil switch contacts are very ugly, and there's ugly elsewhere, but I don't see any opens or stressed components with visual inspection. (Some of what looks ugly is really because the component side had a formed block of foam covering everything and small bits of that foam remained stuck to components when I remove it.) I couldn't really get zoomed in clear focus to get a good view of the contacts to post, but they did look like they needed cleaned pretty badly. I got my ac blower speed control contacts working on my car before by soaking the assembly in vinegar so I'm going to try cleaning up this assembly the same way and see what happens. I may re-flow the solder joints as well, some are less shiny that others, although I can't see any are visually not connected.

Great! I plan on taking a look just to see if I can find a visible fault I can just solder or jumper, probably over the weekend. If that doesn't work I would be glad to send mine your way for core or repair. Stay tuned!