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Hey,

Just asking for one of the blokes i work with. He has a turbo diesel (VM Motor) XJ. A few weeks back his son was driving it, and all the gauges shut down. The motor kept running fine. He took it back home, and they turned it off. Now it will not start, just winds over. When the key is turned to on, the oil pressure gauge will go to the 0 reading and the dash lights will come on, but the fuel gauge does not work. The three lights on the lhs of the cluster on the dash (Coolant, glow and Water trap) are also inop. The owner has checked the wiring as best as he could, and other small stuff along the way (earths etc), and tried to start it on aero start. Any suggestions, or anyone got a wiring diagram/service manual for the XJ's with VM diesel motors?

Or is it just a jeep thing

Cheers,

Layto....

lay80n wrote:
Or is it just a jeep thing

its a jeep thing just wait till it catches fire

It is hard to get advice around here. It is the petrol models that catch fire

it was a joke mate

Joke, " We shouldn't joke around here there are sensative Jeep people who are likely to read this " end joke
New Joke," I have a petrol model ZJ and I am deeply offended because of the said comments", end joke.

Back to the topic, I am glad I don't own that jeep sounds pretty hard core. I dislike how they just switch off and not work. They should go into a limp mode.

I bet the father is a little bit suspicious of the son.

Good luck for your mate.

Jump on aus jeep off road forum and heeps of peopel will help you out!

A few have them in my club(Melbourne jeep owners club!) and love them till something go's wrong then it cost about $987893264 to do anything to that motor as not many where brought in or even made i think!

mine does the same with the gauge cluster
its a bad earth in the dash
all i do is push lower right hand corner of the cluster with index finger
gauges all start working again

TB2 wrote:mine does the same with the gauge cluster
its a bad earth in the dash
all i do is push lower right hand corner of the cluster with index finger
gauges all start working again

interesting,
what model do you have mate?

You could try and get error codes out of it. Google for the year model as some is by toggling the iginition key a few times and reading the codes, later models need a scanner AFAIK.

You could try emailing GoJeep who posts a lot on the AusJeep XJ forum. Here's his website http://www.go.jeep-xj.info/

Cheers everybody. I have pointed him in the ausjeep forum dirrection, though he has been pretty flat out so getting time to work on it has been tough.

Layto....