I’ve seen worse bends in same size and bigger cables that were exposed to far more environmental and vibration extremes than anything these Jeeps will ever see. Insulation will in most cases develop a memory and stretch. What I don’t like about that is the “loop” on cable directly behind connector shell, bends like that can cause stress and spread receptacles inside shell. In my trade we refer to that as “spread pins” which cause all sorts of issues on both small and large wiring.Wow !! Withmy ocd I had to check mine. 22 Overland and look at the bend on this wire ? Looks like they have changed the routing on these a few times ? Not impressed . If you look close you can see shielding on wire, crinkled a little. Add some heat too that ?
Yeah and that’s been making me wonder some on that considering the motors location. Possibly water migrating past sill seal or face seals.
Could do like we do for dirt bikes and open the plug and put some silicon grease on the rubber sealing edges to help reduce water migration. Don't coat the electrical contacts in grease that only reduces connection quality and could cause resistance/heat.
Absolutely, I do that a lot anyway just at work, usually the dirt and mud interfere with the interface so it helps. Also depending on the seal some deform and limit interface anyway just from the friction. We shall see, few days before I go back to work so I’m diving in to investigate the entire circuit and motor.
Forget the bait stations, use the bucket trap method.
i did a quick look at my EcoD pump, and it looks like the only thing separating the pump and the wheel is the finder liner, with about a 3" gap that exposes the mounting bolts for the pump, I would assume that gap will give the pump a little breathing room. I would like to take my IR gun and zap the pump after doing a little driving to see how hot the motor casing gets.Dived in, pulled air box and intake tubing. This is what I found in the first few initial pics of the pump and control wiring in the wild. Few things of concern for me anyway, may not pose a design or operational concern and likely don’t but worth mentioning as follows: location of pump, not only is it absolutely exposed to road spray, car washes, etc but so are starters and in reality or at least hopefully is sealed better than a starter so that likely is moot but…who knows. So more than moisture is heat saturation. Zero air flow from either air flow across front of truck or from fan. Some air likely off fan as shroud is open on both sides, problem is that would be hot air with now where to go. Lack of air isn’t the issue as much as it has no where to go, pump unit is blocked on three sides.
Un-switched battery: mine as the earlier poster had the preload in power in with loop. Once I removed the connectors and looming receptacles are fine with no signs of spread, copper core passed pull test, and connector is clean and dry compared to shell exterior. Nothing really alarming honestly, if it’s thing I guess it’s a thing. I’d say pump related more than anything or some random build executions during assembly.
