Whitejeeptj
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I'll try to make this a short as possible. Long trip towing my TJ on an 18 foot flatbed, 32 hours one way to get there........ the Glad did an as expected job even up the grades encountered going through Vegas up to Lake Tahoe and the Rubicon trail. I watched all temps closely and never experienced deration. We had a good few days on the Rubicon trail (in my TJ only as the glad sat in the parking lot), it was a bucket list trip for me 12 years past due!! Anyway, the trip back home was a little different. After being on the road for about 8 hours we came to a traffic slowdown in Vegas on the interstate for about 30 minutes in 112 degree temps. Upon traffic clearing and speeding back up (gradually I might add) ... it felt like the trailer was hitting bumps and not the glad. This was just a few bumps lasting no more that a few seconds. I then babied the thing just in case. After some time the "bumps" did not return until a few hours later when cresting one of the many many grades. After that, I started manual shifting and learning how to minimize this. Now a few hours later she lights up and goes into limp mode keeping me at 55 mph, so we stopped for the night. A buddy had a scan tool and pulled codes P0513 and P0336. P0513 is incorrect immobiiizer key and P0513 is crankshaft position sensor.
In the morning I disconnected the negative terminal and unplugged the PCM to see if I could clear the limp mode. It appeared to work for a little while, but later on went into limp mode again, then went into a further 45 mph limp mode. Pulled off at an exit that happened to have a very small dealer. Had to wait until Monday morning, so all buddies left me and continued home while I got a room. Next morning the dealer cleared the codes and couldn't do anything more without opening a case and keeping the glad for 1 week minimum. They told me it kept dying on them when they put it into reverse, it never did that on me after I took it back from them. I asked if I could drive it and they said sure, but no guarantee it will make it.
Well, I drove it the rest of the way home about 17 hours over the next two days. It never went into limp mode again, but had no more grunt in it.... barely making it up grades - this condition seemed to correct itself at times and at other times return. It nearly left me at a gas station when it would not start back up, it kept making different noises when trying to start (a bump, an attempt to start sound, a more than a bump) as well getting "stuck" trying to crank which I had to hit the start button a few times to stop. Called for a tow and when trying to put the transmission into neutral so I could get the transfer case into neutral it started right up like nothing was wrong. I let the tow truck guy go and I made the remaining 9 hour drive home never going into limp mode or feeling the transmission/driveline kick thing again. Heading to my dealer next week. Sorry for the ramble I was trying to keep it as short as I could, there a lots of details I skipped over.
In the morning I disconnected the negative terminal and unplugged the PCM to see if I could clear the limp mode. It appeared to work for a little while, but later on went into limp mode again, then went into a further 45 mph limp mode. Pulled off at an exit that happened to have a very small dealer. Had to wait until Monday morning, so all buddies left me and continued home while I got a room. Next morning the dealer cleared the codes and couldn't do anything more without opening a case and keeping the glad for 1 week minimum. They told me it kept dying on them when they put it into reverse, it never did that on me after I took it back from them. I asked if I could drive it and they said sure, but no guarantee it will make it.
Well, I drove it the rest of the way home about 17 hours over the next two days. It never went into limp mode again, but had no more grunt in it.... barely making it up grades - this condition seemed to correct itself at times and at other times return. It nearly left me at a gas station when it would not start back up, it kept making different noises when trying to start (a bump, an attempt to start sound, a more than a bump) as well getting "stuck" trying to crank which I had to hit the start button a few times to stop. Called for a tow and when trying to put the transmission into neutral so I could get the transfer case into neutral it started right up like nothing was wrong. I let the tow truck guy go and I made the remaining 9 hour drive home never going into limp mode or feeling the transmission/driveline kick thing again. Heading to my dealer next week. Sorry for the ramble I was trying to keep it as short as I could, there a lots of details I skipped over.
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