Thread: Friday is now history... - Family Woodworking

Well a happy and sad weekend has finally arrived. Today we take our youngest son to Kingston. We going to friends there for the night and in the am tomorrow we drop him off at University to start his Football camp. Part of me is happy as can be and very proud at the same time and the other half of me is sad he will not be around any more. But its the circle of life and its time to see this bird fly on his own and make a flight path for himself now. I feel he is well equipped to be a good pilot the rest is up to him.

Now i got to get the otherone airborne and that is proving more difficult that the Wright Brothers Challenge was. If it was as easy as building a plane dang it would have been done by now.

Oh before i hit the road though i got to get under my Jeep and sort out some electrical problem with the 4WD system. Refused to let the dealers at it. This week i learnt to chaneg the differential oil in the two diffs front and rear and then changed the fancy stuff in the transfer case. Did not clear the fault. So i took it to the dealer to have them read the code and reset it. $59 bucks just to read code. I would not let them do anything else they scare me way too much. I got a OBD2 code reader but Chrysler has locked out people being able to read some of their more fancy proprietary stuff so you have to have a dealer do it with the Chrysler scan system. Makes me mad as can be when i am locked in. BUt it is what it is.
Made enough savings so far to pay for several new tools. The service to the three elements would have totalled over $800 plus tax. I had a total cost of $170 and that included buying a set of large allen keys for $20 which i will use next time.
Now with the aid of my full factory sevice manual i have the full factory step by step electrical diagnostic procedure to get to the source of the issue causing the code. Heck all you need is a test light and a multimeter to measure resistance in certain plugs. A kid could do it if they can read. Luckily its not a do or die kind of code its more the electronics in the vehicle complaining that it cannot tell what is up. The diff is working fine so is the change over from 4WD hi to lo etc.

Nothing cheap about the cost of ownership on a car loaded with electronics and 4WD. Found out i was supposed to have changed the lub in the diffs every 25K Km I only done it once in 100K so i guess i cannot complain. But a classical case of gouging again is dealer wanted $35 for diff oil.....borg type auto store $23 per bottle. You may not think its big bucks but when you need 4 to do the service thats $48 that can pay for something else. Oh and you guys in the US well you pay $12 or 13 from your dealers for that same Moppar oil.

Wish me luck.

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