Gremlins. Flies in the Ointment. Murphy's Law and Other Hidden Mysteries.

[OldButStillJeeping]

I'll start.

Gremlin: This gremlin started last year. Summer time. My 2021 JTM: Punch the gas hard from stopped or hit the brakes hard... and there is a rattling sound like rolling marbles or ball bearings through a corrugated tube. Driver's side. Sound comes from under your feet.

Presumed issue: Acorns in my rock sliders, frame or cab body cavities. We have chipmunks and various squirrels and rodents at our home in the forest. I presume that one happy little chipmunk decided to store acorns in our Gladiator Mojave's frame or otherwise. I have crawled under the Jeep and poked my fingers into acorn sized holes in the truck... to no avail. I am still waiting for these acorns to disintegrate. It may be awhile.

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[Maximus Gladius]

Do you have a bore scope to look inside the frame?

 

[GeneralMaximus]

Pebble stuck in the brake caliper cover?

 

[Maximus Gladius]

Pebble stuck in the brake caliper cover?

Survey says??!….

 

[OldButStillJeeping]

Thank you. I have access to a endoscope, Good point. I will check it out next week.

A pebble in the brake is not it. Imagine putting 20 or 30 pieces of pea gravel into the truck bed and hearing them rattle forward and back as you brake or accelerate. Only they are inside piece of pipe. Like sloshing gravel.

 

[GeneralMaximus]

Get some duct tape, roll it into a tube, inside out. Put them into every hole in the frame and go for a drive. Pull them all out and see which hole is the winner.

 

[OldButStillJeeping]

Good idea. I was thinking a little spray foam too.

But your idea of the bore scope - endoscope is a great idea that I will try first. Next week once I pick it up at my shop.

Wanting to know what it is, if it's acorns, is my first curiosity. Getting them out may be impossible. It will just be a spray foam or duct tape solution.

If it's acorns, I have a couple 22's, a pistol and a rifle, on hand daily because I live in the forest. But I don't like killing animals unless it is for food or sanitation control. Rodents are filthy creatures, hazardous to humans. Acorns in my trucks frame falls into sanitary control.

You won't find me climbing under logs and or climbing trees to mess with their home. So, they shouldn't mess with my home or even my trucks.

 

[OldButStillJeeping]

My Ruger Mark 4 Tactical, rodent killer.

I do love it.

My 22 rifle is much less. A Ruger, tho.

 

[Rusty PW]

You can use an air hose with a nozzle that has a long bendable tube on the end of it. Stick it in a frame hole at the front and blow towards the rear. Listen for your noise.

 

[Janster]

These aren’t sports cars….don‘t accelerate or brake hard. Turn the stereo up….

Put a camera (like a blink) under the truck - I mean - mount camera on a plant of wood and toss it under the truck temporarily. Maybe you can catch them in the action and see exactly where they’re going under there.

 

[YGBSM]

Thank you. I have access to a endoscope, Good point. I will check it out next week.

Note: You must be over 50 to get this joke.

If you're going to use the endoscope you must first drink a gallon of salted ColonBlow 5000. Have a plumber on standby. And send yourself a bill, from someone you'v e never heard of, six months later demanding immediate payment.

 

[Janster]

In Muffler or exhaust?

 

[OldButStillJeeping]

In Muffler or exhaust?

That's where they insert it. So I have been told. @YGBSM can give you more details.

But seriously, that is a good point. Maybe my cat converter is fragmenting inside. Hmmm?

 

[Rusty PW]

Note: You must be over 50 to get this joke.

If you're going to use the endoscope you must first drink a gallon of salted ColonBlow 5000. Have a plumber on standby. And send yourself a bill, from someone you'v e never heard of, six months later demanding immediate payment.

Alien probe. They put bubble gum on the end of it. When you start chewing. They know it's in deep enough.

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