Don't go replacing those batteries just yet!

[ShadowsPapa]

I appreciate that brother!

Yes! Once you find out that a lot of these issues aren't related to just jeeps, all you can do is laugh.? And speaking of that ground issue that I had. When it first happened, I even went to the dealer because I couldn't figure it out. They couldn't either. Then when I found them and told them what it was, they said it was my fault and to just put a screw in the terminal.?‍?

But you also mentioned something that no one seems to want to do anymore. "Diagnose and troubleshoot." Everyone just wants to buy, buy, buy. I'm assuming you're an older gentleman like myself. If you can remember, back in the day we didn't have this tech that we have now.

OBD II, canbus, SGW, code scanner, etc. None of those terms existed. So, we had no choice but to "diagnose and troubleshoot." It's how we learned. And it's paying off for people like us. "The Lifelong troubleshooters." I actually like that term. Lol

You look fairly young to me - and I can recall a time when everyone looked OLD to me. LOL
66 but 20 at heart.

Diagnosing and troubleshooting got me my reputation.
I still wonder how life would have changed if in about 1980 I had said "yes" to the offer of service manager position at what was then a big AMC/Jeep dealership in Iowa.
I had a nice head of hair in those days.

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[WILDHOBO]

You look fairly young to me - and I can recall a time when everyone looked OLD to me. LOL
66 but 20 at heart.

Diagnosing and troubleshooting got me my reputation.
I still wonder how life would have changed if in about 1980 I had said "yes" to the offer of service manager position at what was then a big AMC/Jeep dealership in Iowa.
I had a nice head of hair in those days.

I wish schools still had shop class. In my opinion, that’s a huge loss for our kids.

 

[tysongladiator]

You look fairly young to me - and I can recall a time when everyone looked OLD to me. LOL
66 but 20 at heart.

Diagnosing and troubleshooting got me my reputation.
I still wonder how life would have changed if in about 1980 I had said "yes" to the offer of service manager position at what was then a big AMC/Jeep dealership in Iowa.
I had a nice head of hair in those days.

66 is still young! You might have changed the way that service department does business and led the way for changes in all of them. Service departments might have a different standard right now.

 

[tysongladiator]

I wish schools still had shop class. In my opinion, that’s a huge loss for our kids.

Shop class? Heck yes!!! I remember shop class, construction, home ec, typing. The kids now have nothing and don't know how to do anything.

 

[jeepers29]

I know that when the CEL (Avengers! Lol) light comes on, everyone's first action is to replace the batteries. Obviously there are a number of things that will initiate a CEL light, but there are a few things that can be quickly checked before you spend $300 - $700 on batteries or $1000+ on a dual battery setup. I made a quick video to show those few things and where they're located. Check it out!

Nice video. Can you provide a link for battery teriminals that you have and what part of Texas are you in?

 

[Maximus Gladius]

Nice video. Can you provide a link for battery teriminals that you have and what part of Texas are you in?

This is what I found up here in Canada, I believe OP had installed.

Vgate 12-Way AGM Post Terminal Ends, Battery Terminal Connector Clamps, 8AWG up to 4/0(XL) AWG Gauge, Positive & Negative for SAE/DIN/EN Tapered Top Post
https://a.co/d/3WLuhsX

 

[Choatecav]

Good job with this and thanks for making it.
I actually understood this video.

 

[jeepers29]

This is what I found up here in Canada, I believe OP had installed.

Vgate 12-Way AGM Post Terminal Ends, Battery Terminal Connector Clamps, 8AWG up to 4/0(XL) AWG Gauge, Positive & Negative for SAE/DIN/EN Tapered Top Post
https://a.co/d/3WLuhsX

Thank you

 

[WILDHOBO]

Shop class? Heck yes!!! I remember shop class, construction, home ec, typing. The kids now have nothing and don't know how to do anything.

Seriously. With my limited garage space, I don’t think I’ve used bench sanders or bench jigsaws since middle school. I never had auto shop, but wish I did. I had home ec and though that was very valuable for men and women equally. It’s important and fun to know how to cook and sew a little.

 

[tysongladiator]

Nice video. Can you provide a link for battery teriminals that you have and what part of Texas are you in?

I provided a link and someone else has provided a link as well.

I was in San Antonio. I retired from the military and moved back home to FL. But I do make visits back to TX. I now work remote for my company and come back out there every few months for work. Actually wheeling, but we'll just say work.???

 

[legacy_etu]

Nice presentation. You have a good on screen personality. You should do more videos.

ah yes, the good ole shop class, home Ec. And wood shop! Funny, I hated taking home etc. but now that I’m older I appreciate the stuff I learned. Hell, I just sewed a button the other week. Didn’t like it, but I knew how to do it, ha!

 

[tysongladiator]

Seriously. With my limited garage space, I don’t think I’ve used bench sanders or bench jigsaws since middle school. I never had auto shop, but wish I did. I had home ec and though that was very valuable for men and women equally. It’s important and fun to know how to cook and sew a little.

The garage in my previous home was so limited that I had to add an extra area onto the side of the house to work on vehicles. That's when I ended up spending more money on more tools. Haha!

And yes! I think Home Ec was just as beneficial as the shop class. Once I was done with all of the hard stuff and on my last few years in the military, I was in recruiting. I was shocked as how many of these kids now lack the basic skills like the stuff we learned in Home Ec, shop, typing, etc. It made our time out in the field a lot easier when we can take care of ourselves.

 

[tysongladiator]

Nice presentation. You have a good on screen personality. You should do more videos.

ah yes, the good ole shop class, home Ec. And wood shop! Funny, I hated taking home etc. but now that I’m older I appreciate the stuff I learned. Hell, I just sewed a button the other week. Didn’t like it, but I knew how to do it, ha!

I have a few out there. While most of these folks out there main goal is to get paid, I'm just trying to help. If I get paid, cool. If not, cool. Not my main goal. And having to give briefings on a weekly basis helps. The military has it's ways of breaking you of any stage fright you may have.??

Yes!!! I remember being one of two guys in Home Ec. Like you, I hated being in there. But, when you're in a situation where you have to depend on yourself, you realize very quickly how important those classes were. I sewed one of my grandkids toy back together and she gave me that look like, "How does a guy know how to do that?" Instant Hero!!!??

 

[RK Racing]

Thank you for taking the time out to make that video to help out hopefully a lot of people. Thank you again.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I was in San Antonio. I retired from the military and moved back home to FL.

I knew there was something about your "demeanor" in the videos, and just in general. Thank you for your service (and that goes to any other person who has given themselves to this country)

My son and his family live just north of St. Augustine. Been down there a couple of times. (we drove there and back)

I was the only guy in typing class. Not really sure why I wanted to take it - but did. It served me well later. I actually got up to 40 wpm! (compared to my wife, with only 3 fingers on one hand and one that could press a key on the other hand, she got over 80 wpm)
It helped in later life when I wrote some magazine articles, or even later - documented IT systems.

Seriously. With my limited garage space, I don’t think I’ve used bench sanders or bench jigsaws since middle school. I never had auto shop, but wish I did. I had home ec and though that was very valuable for men and women equally. It’s important and fun to know how to cook and sew a little.

I learned some basics as far as basic cooking, and some basic sewing stuff before I even reached HS. My dad was raised by his aunts as his mother died giving birth to his brother, and his father was never quite the same after he was gassed by the Germans while in France in the army. When my parents went shopping or whatever, Dad's aunts watched us.
I took a multitude of shop classes - machine shop, drafting, electric and electronics class, and furthered the electric through VICA - house wiring and so on.
I got to skip the first 2 levels of auto because I was already doing small engine repair and basic automotive by that time in my own shop (well, Dad's garage and workshop area). To pass out of those classes, i had to go through some Q&A directly with the teacher, and explained the operation of an automatic transmission, the circuits and what each did, and go through and explain the parts and circuits of a Holley 4bbl carburetor.

Diagnosing and troubleshooting. Yeah, that also got me my first job after college.
I saw a notice on the college shop b-board for a mechanic in a nearby town.
I drove over and the "service manager" (informal, he was lead over the others in the shop - a friend of the boss/owner and had worked there a few years) was working on a Ford, hooked up to the Sun scope and was obviously not really happy. Imagine walking in to talk about a job and the guy you need to talk to isn't having a really great day.
We chatted a while, while he worked with the car off and on during our talking. He was trying to diagnose a misfire (gee, where does that term ever come up) and it was sitting there doing fine at the moment.
After a few minutes he asked some questions about my experience with a scope and so on. He asked me to take a look at the scope pattern of that car and tell him what I thought.
Besides diagnosing and troubleshooting as far as terms a good mechanic should know - for me it's also "pattern recognition". Do you see a pattern - what fits, what doesn't fit.
Revving the engine a couple of times under load (in gear, brake held firmly) looking at the scope I saw a pattern that didn't fit. I told him what I thought, suggest what he do.
His next words after making the change - "you start next Monday".

Sad to say, later, when I ended up in IT, at CCC - my "skills" got my boss let go from his job.
Anyone recall Novell Netware? We had 4 (or maybe it was 5?? - memory......) servers. It was still on coax, about the time 10BaseT was becoming the big things. One of the servers, our main one in the IT area, had several network cards tying things together. The boss was big on those multi-network type cards - the equivalent of 2 or more NICs on one card to save slots. As the company grew, more cards were installed to handle more networks.
People gradually started complaining about slow network performance, and waiting forever for a login to take place. It reached the point were on Mondays, many couldn't even get past the login prompt - it would just stop responding. The boss checked over everything he knew, and even called in outside services from a local company that did network setup and diagnosing. They did their network sniffing and found nothing. They spent hours, came back a couple of times, found nothing. It kept getting worse and worse and I had gone in to the boss more than once suggesting maybe having every slot in that server filled with a multiple network NIC was just too much. Naw, that's not it, it's made to handle it! It was the best server you could buy at that time. I observed, seeing patterns, and noticed where most of the complaints came from as far as which networks, timing, etc. I came up with a theory and quietly contacted Novel engineering and ran some ideas past them. They said yeah, that's a credible theory - sounds good. Told my boss - he disagreed and said no, that's not it. His boss was getting the complaints by now and the stuff just kept flowing up hill.
Me being me - I went up the ladder - had put together not only my theories in logical bullet-point form, but included comments from Novel engineers - and a proposed solution.
The CFO asked me to put together a final cost and bring it to him. I did. He looked it over and said if you really believe this is it, order what you need and pull together a crew and set up a schedule.
i had a company run twisted pair to each workstation, took over a closet and installed a series of switches, combined the smaller networks into larger switched networks, took all but a couple of NICs out of the server. This was all done over a long weekend and no one but me, the crew I had (the other IT people in the company) and the boss's boss knew of this. Monday came and the higher ups started getting calls and emails asking what happened - they'd never been able to login so fast or have the network respond so quickly.
My boss was demoted to a really low level - a few weeks later he quit.
The server was spending so much time handling routing between the multitude of small networks on a Monday morning it had no resources to handle login requests. The server was acting more like a router. I was sweating - imagine if I had been wrong?!!

you could never make a good soldier out of me. It doesn't matter how hard I might want to be one.
I could never be a good surgeon - no matter how badly I may want to be.
I can think of a list of things I'd be horrible at - no matter how much I might WANT to, it's just better if I don't. When the zombie apocalypse comes - I doubt I'd be one of the final survivors.

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