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Merry Christmas or x-mas. If you dont like Christ then happy holidays. If you dont like holidays, then enjoy your day off.
My friend Cooper and I braved the cold wave we had here and put on these new Bushwacker fender flares on the Jeep. The very last hole I drilled into the fender ended up also drilling a hole into the windshield wiper fluid tank. I pulled the drill out, and along came the entire contents of wiper fluid. That will be fixed soon. We also degreased the engine - it had probably 18 years of oil and dirt caked on it. I may need to upgrade the carburetor at some point. Its hard to start in the cold, and its hard to keep it idling on its own for the first 10 minutes of driving. Hit the brake at a stop sign and it wants to stall out. Thats all for now.
 My pride and pain from 2001 -2005….and then we moved away from the hostilities of Scottish weather and terrain. Ride it like you mean it!
I finally fixed the Jeeps starting problems! After a week of cold nights outside trouble shooting almost the entire ignition process, the solution was found. After replacing the starter motor, the ignition coil, the distributor cap and rotor, I got a suggestion from someone on www.jeepforum.com that it could be the Ignition Control Module. I had never heard of it, and the Haynes Manual for the Jeep hardly made a mention of it.
The Ignition Control Module was hidden underneath the engine coolant tank and mounted to the fender wall - on the other side from all the other ignition parts. I unbolted it (only breaking one bolt due to its extreme decay) and found it to be in bad shape. It was all corroded and looked like it was found in a melted salty snowbank. I took it to get it tested, but all the Autozone stores said they couldnt test it. So I bought a new one.
I put it back in the Jeep, and voila - it started right up! Then I found a construcion site and tested out the 4 wheel drive low gears. I drove it up some muddy dirt pile and sprayed mud all over. It was fun.
