The benefits of that little plastic sheild

[Cabz]

For those of you who have had to swap a CPS on a 4.0 MJ/XJ you'll find this frightening :shock: .

I drove my MJ to work one day last week and parked it outside my office as usual, just another day( yea right ). When I went to drive to another location the ole girl wouldn't start. :shock: :evil: :evil: well the CPS had taken a dump, No big deal right?.

So I get a ride to the local autoparts store and get a brand new CPS , go back to my worksite and procede to swap it out.

 

This being a 5 spd there is a bit more room to play with then the auto trans models. ( and I mean only a BIT more room )

so I start pulling the old one off and I notice that the little plastic sheild that the CPS goes through is rotted and just about gone ( it was gone as soon as I touched it :( )

 

Getting the new CPS in was a load of fun lemme tell ya :shock: you see as I was putting the new one in with my arm bent in a way that it is not meant to bend that cute little bolt dropped into the clutch .

 

You can just imagine the new curse words I invented ! you see that little plastic cover was there for a reason ( suicide prevention I think )

I did manage to get that bolt out by taking off the starter and lower splash/clutch shield and turning the motor over slowly witha ratchet back and forth a few times and it came out ( But that was pure luck )

 

So Just in case you have that little sheild and don't think it needs to be reinstalled PLEASE rethink that position, and if you don't have one at all try useing some tape or something to block off most of that large hole so you don't have to go through this little ordeal

 

P.S

The CPS I replaced was the factory original 212,340 miles on it with "Renix" Stamped on the back of it .

[pingpong]

Good tech bit.

 

 

 

Patrick

[Cabz]

Thanks :D it was a load O fun :shock: and if my hellish nightmares tale can save just one .................. other person from having the same fit.

 

I'll be happy :-D

[87manche]

I saw that someone had notched the CPS mount so the bolts didn't have to be removed completely to remove and replace. Seemed to me a good idea.

Picture taken from the jeep power yahoo group

http://www.flickr.com/photos/74249553@N00/94950118/

Makes sense, now you don't have to remove the bolts, just lossen them, and rotate the CPS up and pull it off. I will be doing this when I have to do the CPS.

[Pete M]

[Cabz]

Not a bad Idea. just don't remove too much it would probably throw off the PCM.

 

But definatly not a bad idea :D