'97 grand cherokee stalling

Discussion in 'General Motoring' started by don, Jan 8, 2007.

  1. don

    don Guest

    I have a very unusual probel w/my 97 grand cherokee ltd (6 cyl). seems it
    has stumped the chrysler/jeep dealer I finally brought it for service. HAd
    another mech try to diagnose and fix and after an induction coil, ign coil,
    idle air valve and crank sensor replacement, seems the problem still
    exists. The problem:Car will stall when at idle and difficult if not
    impossible to restart. leave it alone for a few minutes it will restart.
    engine could be cold or at operating temp. while driving it has also
    stalled, but most times will "restart" enroute. Chrysler has had the car
    for several weeks now and they are still scratching their heads. Thier
    best best guess is that ther was carbon build up at the air idle valve.
    They cleaned it, I drove it for a day and then it starts to stall again. I
    had a multiple missfire code when it initially happened and you could tell
    that when trying to restart it was miss firing. Recently the check engine
    light came on and error code 21 (oxygen sensor voltage?) flashed. was on
    for three days , when I brought it back to Chyrsler, the check engine light
    no longer lit, don't know if the code was still there?
    Anyway...anybody got any ideas? Chrysler sure doesn't!
     
    don, Jan 8, 2007
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  2. don

    Yabahoobs Guest

    loose wiring harness from the computer ?
     
    Yabahoobs, Jan 9, 2007
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  3. don

    bllsht Guest

    They replaced an induction coil? That's a pretty neat trick,
    considering it doesn't even have one.

    You're not really clear as to who threw all the parts at it. Has the
    dealer duplicated the problem? You said you had a misfire code. What
    exactly was the code? The O2 fault could contribute to a performance
    problem, but will not cause a hard/no start.
     
    bllsht, Jan 9, 2007
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  4. don

    don Guest

    The parts were put in by a non-dealer mech that I have been using for
    years. The induction coil, actually I believe it's called the pick up
    coil in the distributor, my bad. The dealer has gotten it to stall by
    running it for 8 hours (at idle) in the shop, but has not gotten any
    error codes. That's why the initially had it for almost 2 weeks. They
    told me to take the vehicle back and drive it for the weekend(no co-pilot
    attached) they wanted to see if by cleaning the air idle of carbon that
    would fix the problem. obviously it didn't and today is thursday, they
    still haven't figured it out(brought it back in Saturday). I saw another
    thread on this newsgroup about crank/cam sensors and sounds somewaht
    similar to my problem. My original mech (afer throwning in all the
    parts) said it was the PCM. Before I go that route, I thought Chrysler
    would be able to pinpoint the exact problem, rather than throwing in a
    PCM.
     
    don, Jan 11, 2007
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