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Who wheels their Jeep, or just drives it or????

How do you use your Scrambler?

  • I only drive mine on the street and just love owning a nice Scrambler

    Votes: 8 19.5%

  • I drive mine on the street and wheel it off road.

    Votes: 31 75.6%

  • Mine is for offroad and is built to be driven hard.

    Votes: 2 4.9%
  • Total voters
    41
mines my daily driver and only vehicle now days, when it runs which is only in cool weather with the EFI so I walk alot. AS for value, apparently they arent worth much around here, I cant get enough out of it to replace it.
 

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What is wrong with your EFI that causes it to now run during warm weather?
 
bigwalton said:
Michigan doesn't do front plates and they don't give a crap what you have on the front, so that's the Alaska plate that was on it when I got it.
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Wow that's is crazy. CT would tow our shit as soon as we did that.
 
Kane said:
Wow that's is crazy. CT would tow our shit as soon as we did that.
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But do they require front plates? If not, who cares?

People here run all sorts of things in front, lots of skinny German front plates on BMWs, for instance.
 
HESCO/MOPAR as near as I can tell, its done it occasionally since I installed it, as has everyone else I know who has done this system, usually with gas from the reservation, but now it has the same vapor lock symptoms even more frequently and with good, premium gas. a drive yesterday that took an hour to get there took 4 + to get home and I walked the last mile because it was quicker than waiting on it to decide to run.
 
trust said:
HESCO/MOPAR as near as I can tell, its done it occasionally since I installed it, as has everyone else I know who has done this system, usually with gas from the reservation, but now it has the same vapor lock symptoms even more frequently and with good, premium gas. a drive yesterday that took an hour to get there took 4 + to get home and I walked the last mile because it was quicker than waiting on it to decide to run.
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That's terrible. My Howell kit runs like a charm even when we had the 100+ degree days with a million % humidity.
 
trust said:
HESCO/MOPAR as near as I can tell, its done it occasionally since I installed it, as has everyone else I know who has done this system, usually with gas from the reservation, but now it has the same vapor lock symptoms even more frequently and with good, premium gas. a drive yesterday that took an hour to get there took 4 + to get home and I walked the last mile because it was quicker than waiting on it to decide to run.
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I had major vapor lock issues with my mopar FI. It took me a year to figure it out. On what seemed like my 1000th test drive, i brought along my temp gun and discovered my problem. My fuel pump was mounted above the rear axel, right next to the fuel tank. The pump was getting really hot (180deg) from the axel and exaust, coupled with poor air flow. I moved the fuel pump to the back side of the tank, and havnt had a problem since. Now the temp on the pump is ambient.
 
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bigwalton said:
But do they require front plates? If not, who cares?

People here run all sorts of things in front, lots of skinny German front plates on BMWs, for instance.
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Yeah state law requires a front plate. Oddly enough I never ran a front plate on my CJ5 for 27 years and never got busted for it but I have plenty of friends who received tickets for not having one.
 
I drive mine every chance that i get. Probably 20% off road "mostly mild".
 
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The Scrambler gets VERY lightly used these days. I have a CJ-7 with lockers and a lift, so that's what I take if I'm doing anything more than dirt roads.
 
HighSierra CJ said:
I had major vapor lock issues with my mopar FI. It took me a year to figure it out. On what seemed like my 1000th test drive, i brought along my temp gun and discovered my problem. My fuel pump was mounted above the rear axel, right next to the fuel tank. The pump was getting really hot (180deg) from the axel and exaust, coupled with poor air flow. I moved the fuel pump to the back side of the tank, and havnt had a problem since. Now the temp on the pump is ambient.
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Thanks!! thats the best suggestion Ive seen on what appears to be a common issue. I'll be looking at repositioning mine this weekend. Any chance you could send me a pic? cjatheart@yahoo

thanks!
 
trust said:
HESCO/MOPAR as near as I can tell, its done it occasionally since I installed it, as has everyone else I know who has done this system, usually with gas from the reservation, but now it has the same vapor lock symptoms even more frequently and with good, premium gas. a drive yesterday that took an hour to get there took 4 + to get home and I walked the last mile because it was quicker than waiting on it to decide to run.
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Point me to another thread of there is one.

One other idea.... What & where is your air intake? Hesco"s CAI they include with the MPI kit is terrible (it breathes nothing but hot air.. It should be called an HAI, not CAI)

I'm using a TJ 4.0 tube and box on the pass side away from the header.

Also, the box is connected to the grill at the CJ OEM locationwith same CJ OEM flexible tube rather than using the OEM TJ box "horn" that takes air from under the hood.

As an added precaution, I have some tape over the adjacent OEM hole in the top grill corner to minimize any under the hood air.


Jim

P.S. don't believe anyone on this board if they tell you I have a WAI. (Water Air Intake):)
 
I built mine primarily for wheeling off road but it is also driven on the road a lot when it isn't cold and snowy. I trailer it when we want to have the pickup camper for comfort on long trips.
 
CJ-8_Jim said:
Point me to another thread of there is one.

One other idea.... What & where is your air intake? Hesco"s CAI they include with the MPI kit is terrible (it breathes nothing but hot air.. It should be called an HAI, not CAI)

I'm using a TJ 4.0 tube and box on the pass side away from the header.

Also, the box is connected to the grill at the CJ OEM locationwith same CJ OEM flexible tube rather than using the OEM TJ box "horn" that takes air from under the hood.

As an added precaution, I have some tape over the adjacent OEM hole in the top grill corner to minimize any under the hood air.


Jim

P.S. don't believe anyone on this board if they tell you I have a WAI. (Water Air Intake):)
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My air intake is on the left side forward and consists of only an open element filter and tube to the throttle body, I'll look at repositioning it to the right side of the engine compartment, thanks
 
trust said:
My air intake is on the left side forward and consists of only an open element filter and tube to the throttle body, I'll look at repositioning it to the right side of the engine compartment, thanks
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For what it's worth, I'd look at finding a way to restrict and preferably eliminate under the hood hot air.
 
CJ-8_Jim said:
For what it's worth, I'd look at finding a way to restrict and preferably eliminate under the hood hot air.
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That is basically exactly what the factory CJ air cleaner did but most of the flexible hoses disappeared a long time ago.
 
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