Just added the heated seat repair and headliner removal. The fuel filter is pretty self explanatory. If it's outside the tank it's just two clips. If it's inside the tank you just have to unscrew the two gas tank straps and remove the two filler hoses and drop the tank.
Power steering and brake fluid flushes can only be done with with suction devices/bleeding the brakes so it's not really something that needs explained.
you should add heated seat repair. since it started getting cold, i've noticed a lot of people posting about it.
awesome awesome thread man. i'm really busy lately, but once things die down, i'll help you out. maybe some of us can put something together and finally update that faq properly.
Awesome write up. I have lurked on here since i started looking for my ZJ and since i have gotten it i have researched and worked up a to-do list but this and the 12 step program and now my go tos.
I have one that you could consider adding to #18 belt chirp. On my '96 (4.0), I had a chirping belt when cold for a few days so I ordered a new belt and two new idler pulleys from Rock Auto. On replacement day after changing the belt and both pulleys, it still had a chirp when revving the engine. While watching the belt while revving the engine, that's when I noticed the pulley portion of the harmonic balancer moving in and out. Inspection of it showed that it was beginning to come apart - the isolating rubber was bulging out and I could pick it off. Fortunately the local parts store had a new Dorman balancer for $45 and with a short harmonic balance puller, it could be pulled without removing the radiator. I figure the balancer was so cheap compared to some others because it has no reluctor wheel on it since our crankshaft position sensor is located in the bellhousing.
I just logged on, checked out the new threads, and immediately found three or four that obviously didn't read this one. Could this thread get stickied, "Read this before posting problems!"
Everybody loves this. You will be hard pressed to find a driver's ZJ door that doesn't have this problem. The door pins that hold the hinges on eventually go bad and will cause the door to sag and thud when it opens/closes. The super cool pin striping plus up and down door movement is the easiest way to notice the problem. Here is a great write-up on how to replace the pins.
"Third, flush the coolant system. There is a plug at the bottom of the radiator that makes this an easy process. Please don't do this while engine is warm."
Back when I was a teenager, I watched my step-brother do basically that exact thing. We were driving and he notice the engine seemed to be getting a little too warm. We pulled over, he popped the hood, reached for the radiator cap and burned his hand. SO HE GETS A TOWEL AND OPENS THE CAP!!! Luckily he jumped back and somehow didn't burn himself bad. I'm a ***hole, so of coarse, I laughed my butt off.
back in highschool we ran into a situation where we had to open the radcap while things were running and what we ended up doing was grabbing some coveralls and engulfing the entire cap with them so any spray was right into the fabric and not on us when we opened it
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