Yeah this is where I think day to day installs come in to the picture. Yours is what I just did to mineThe one thing I noticed is that my 23 and 24 have a smoother transition into the curve of the wiring compared to your photo and one other photo a member posted? Maybe it means nothing but I will mention it for discussion.
Sipped some iced tea and was looking at that so I had some DEI heat shield stashed and cut a section. No way it slide over connectors so this will workthis area is my area of concern, those fins look like cooling fins, so how hot do they get, can they damage the wire above?
Yeah itâs a small area below liner. The draft tube sits directly over along with lower section of intake box. About its only way of shedding heat is off sides. Personally I donât think there is much to see here. Thereâs cats going to Moab, playing in mud with this stuff, if anything was going to overheat and spontaneously combust weâd all hear about it.
Iâll volunteer to keep the Bette in my garage for you! No charge! Iâll even run it around a couple times a month to keep it going! Beautiful car! My favorite color for that era!If mine goes
Hopefully youâre new one doesnât go up, that damn thing will be an inferno!
Seems unnecessary? One report of a fire the truck was only driven for 10 minutes. Thereâs no way that got that hot in ten minutes to catch wires on fire. Doesnât seem right.Sipped some iced tea and was looking at that so I had some DEI heat shield stashed and cut a section. No way it slide over connectors so this will work
All of it was unnecessary, but was in it that far so might as well.
Looks like some of those are fuel related and near the back of the engine, not the PS pump connector.
I remember it in 2002. A switch in the mastercylinder failed and started a fire. A fuseable link was installed and not the faulty switch.Could it possibly be similar to the issues Ford had with their brake master cylinders back in the 80âs and later? There was a seal where the plug connected, that would fail. The brake fluid would short the connector out, causing a fire. I lost a â90 Bronco because of the issue, that had been recalled but never fixed. (Bought it used at almost 20 years old). I found that out after the fact. Unfortunately, mine burned up around 2010, so I was out of luck. Pic included. Had it about 10 hours. It had never been farther than 5 miles from the original owners home its whole life. I put 100 or so miles on it the day I bought it. I guess it never got hot enough to ignite it until I got it.
I guess I have to wait until this is resolved. In other words, the lawsuits start rolling in, NHTSA mandates a recall, Stellantis and the supplier of the pumps agree on whoâs culpable, i.e., whoâs paying for it, they drag their feet engineering a solution, they start slow rolling parts to dealerships and I navigate the dealership morons who wonât answer the phones or return calls, canât order parts and canât install shit. The big wire is the live wire and it's live cause it's carrying 150 amps. To introduce a relay that can active inactive 150amps constantly I suspect costs lots of money.Some random thoughts:
I was just about to install my Apex steering booster kit.
So in about 3 years I can install my boost kit. And donât anyone say anything about this being a safety issue and it therefore resulting in an expedited solution. The 3.0 fuel pump boondoggle was also a NHTSA mandated safety recall and took years while we all wondered if our trucks would suddenly die at 75 MPH.
The other thing is that this doesnât make a lot of sense. These fires occur after the Jeep has been sitting, so after it has cooled down. Even if the electrical connector is failing do to some magical delayed problem, why is the power steering systems wiring live at all? And if the melting/failing connector is to blame we should be seeing a healthy percentage of these fires occurring while the Jeep is being driven. Why is this primarily or only happening to vehicles that have been sitting, shouldnât have power going to the pump at all and have cooled down?
