DAMN ZJ !!!! altenator. Rant.
 

Ok here's the story... Wifey came home last night saying that the
volt guage is down at 9 and the check engine light is on. So out I go
in the sunset and start looking around. First I pulled the codes.
got one for low voltage to PCM, another saying a fault with the MAP
sensor and another saying low input (or something) for the VSS. Well
next step that was easy was put the trusty multimeter one the battery
and check with the key off...12.04 volts. Check it again with the
engine running... a whopping 12.01 volts. O.K easy solution..
Altenator is shot.. dig through the trusty parts boxes and pull out
the altenator from my old XJ. Start early this morning figuring it
should take me about 2 hrs max. to complete the job.. well.... the
ZJ is parked in the drive, the altenator is still in the garage ans I
can tell you how much Chrysler Canada wants to sell a altenator/
starter harness for... $289.00 plus tax.

Once I got the old altenator out I discovered that one of the lugs on
the field connections was broken off.. spent all day calling and
visiting bone yards trying to find a harnes. no luck, seems that
every wrecker does the same thing. If they remove the altenator they
just cut the wires, instead of removing them. I finally found an
older XJ that still had the altenator and also had that harness, only
problem the connectors on the harness are opposite of the ZJ. XJ is
male where the ZJ is female. So I ended up cutting out the part
required and managed to get things spliced back together tonight.
Sometime tomorrow I will rebuild the wire looms and get the damn
altenator installed, I might even take the old altenator in and have
it tested.

Damn ZJ.. is begining to live up to the name "Just Empty Evey Pocket"

Snow...