Jeep Cherokee | Don't buy a Jeep Cherokee (Until you watch this video) what to look for

How are you doing on YouTube? I'm the Bootheel kid and here's another installment of Jeeps cheep cheep cheep cheep cheeps so first I'll show you my Jeep. I have a

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ing for a Jeep Cherokee in the process of purchasing multiple Jeep Cherokees Grand Cherokees and Comanches. The old man and I have got our Jeep checks down to a bit of a science I guess you'd say we've probably looked at between 50 and 75

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s to buy when he was looking, he spent two or three years looking for a Jeep Cherokee looking for this Jeep Cherokee, I actually wanted a green Jeep Cherokee and he was being very picky about it and ended up settling after two years of looking for a black one and about a year after I bought the black one I found this one so in that process we bought a few

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s. and I found things later about them and then as we looked at the jeeps we found other problems with them that seem to be pretty consistent as far as jeeps go.

Sorry if I'm yelling a little, I forgot my headphones so I don't have a microphone to improve the audio a little. I hope the wind blows a little. Hopefully it doesn't affect him too much anyway. Some of the problems that we have found in these jeeps, I am simply showing the Jeep I know that some of the problems that we have found in these jeeps are quite universal and

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I mean by this is that they are faults with the manufacturer or faults with maintenance of the vehicle, but they tend to be consistent one I'm going to talk to you about now no matter the interior is a little junk the driver's side door the driver's side door hinge right here this bushing tends to come off or the welds start to separate right here this is welded to the body it's all unibody but this is welded to the body and this bushing here will come off or this well will start to break and the door you can take say if I can show this here you can take the door if the Mine doesn't do it like the old one does but you can take this door and you can lift it up and down and it will move a good three quarters of an inch to an inch and a half so we always check the front driver's side door and the passenger side front door because those are typically the ones that get used the most and those bushings wear out, how should I not close that door next?

And mine is actually riddled with this, this seat on the driver's side, I hope you can see it well, there's the driver. Side seat support brakes suitable for people who jump in and out of them. I don't know if the guys are overweight but I've only had one Jeep and we've seen one, it was a OR a two wheel drive Jeep Cherokee and it worked. and drive, the guy just wanted more than we wanted to pay for it, he was the only one I found that didn't have the driver's side seat frame broken, if you have any kind of welding skills, it's easy to fix, you have to take the Take out the seat, separate the seat to the frame, weld the bracket back on and you're fixed.

I still have it fixed because it's cold and I need a vehicle to drive the next rust. Rust plagues Jeep Cherokees and I mean four. -Wheel drive Jeep Cherokees in our area anyway, if you are there as an owner somewhere you might find some that are in better shape, but in our area they are all rusty all the time. I'm going to have to turn it off, there's a car cutout here. that some guys are already old and stopped talking to me about the Jeep, actually it's one of them as a student I have at school, but anyway, one of them who stopped by helped me build the Jeep and the other one is one of my students, but what? we were talking about rust rust on these four four wheel drive wooden jeeps rust is horrible in our area if you look somewhere in Arizona or something it may not be so bad this was a two wheel drive Jeep wheels and I didn't rest on the reason I bought it, but where you should look for rust is the rocker panels on both sides and then see if I can get this to autofocus, up here, okay, you see the frame rail you need .

Looking up here on the floor, where right where the transmission goes up, you want to look at this area on the floor. The rust is always there, also a good place to check if you can remove the bumper covers or if the bumper cover is removed, check this rear quarter panel. I have a hole this size in my black Jeep that I found after removing the bumper cover. Rust in those areas is the most common, also if it has been raining before you go look. in your Jeep, which I can't show you inside those things on the full dash, check the passenger side floor board because the water is going to come in here into the engine compartment and it's going to come in behind your core, it's going to go behind there, that's simple. . fix it relatively, you have to unscrew the heater core, push it back and you can RVT, silicone it and that will take care of it.

What are some other things you should check? You should check your universal joint. It's like hunt and check. your u-joints and what I mean by u-joints, you need to check for any kind of play in the front driveshaft, at the u-joint with the transfer case and in both rears, well those are common things that come out. They are a little tricky to replace, if you have mechanical skills you can replace them fairly easily, but they can be tricky. Another thing to check for is oil leaks, transmission leaks, which I hope you're checking for on any used vehicle.

I'm going to look, but you need to check and see where the transmission is flowing from or where the oil is coming from, for example in a four wheel drive Jeep. If there is a leak between the transfer case and transmission, you must separate and replace them. its rear main seal and all that stuff that will become a headache if it doesn't have a lift or if it's a stock ride height Jeep. I weigh 240 pounds five nine in a stock Jeep. It's hard for me to get up to crawl up there and work if you get up, it's a lot easier, but it's hard for me to get in and out of there, let's see what are some other things that we've looked at and always check. rust on the floorboards rust on the rocker panels we check for water on the passenger side floor in particular because that shows there is a leak there and the water will cause rust on the passenger side floor, the bushings the doors, the front driver's seat frame is broken, come up down here, let me raise this hood here.

Today I bought my tripod. I know I'm probably still a little shaky, but I'll put you down for a second. I'll give you a good view of the Jeep's undercarriage, okay. other things we always look for are fan shrouds, if you have an original fan shroud, it has been well cared for, original fan shrouds which we have almost never found on a Jeep, another thing is this clutch fan, if you have this clutch fan clutch. Give it a spin, if it spins freely and you keep spinning the clutch fans, it won't cool down, it will start to overheat, so you should be able to spin that hard and it shouldn't work, it shouldn't work at all.

The road is fine, I mean I'm turning pretty hard and it's not turning the full 360 degrees so check to check the clutch fan if you have an electric fan. Great, the electric fan will turn on at over 210 degrees, which is. Why did I wire it to connect to a switch? Good, because I want to be able to turn it on. Basically, I want to keep it under 210 degrees, so I turned it on. It's winter now so I don't have to but I will turn it on in the summer once it starts to get hot sitting in traffic check your water pump.

I check for leaks like I said on mine. The tube that comes out here comes out straight and then curves back. Well, mine was leaking just a little bit around it. Here, when I grabbed it, it came out and a lot of liquid came out. If you want to put the original back on you have to take it off, take the belt off and then you have to take off this water pump and it's a pain, you can do what I did here and that has worked fine. Oil leaks around the valve cover are a common place for old stuff to start leaking.

Water leaks around the thermostat housing are very common. They are just together. The gaskets are cheap, not that hard to replace, but yes, the thermostat housing gasket, if it doesn't change properly, you need to reset this throttle valve cable. I think it's what's called the transmission valve cable, throttle valve cable, whatever it is, it goes all the way to the transmission and basically senses your I don't know how it works exactly, but it's basically what helps your transmission. change correctly. Determine how fast you're going, where the throttle is, and shift the transmission accordingly. It won't shift properly without it. to check it out because 99% of the time someone won't know if they aren't the only Jeep owner right here.

Well, I have looked at some that are 99 2000 2001 that have this distributor that is not the original engine. for that Jeep, if a '99 to 2000 Jeep Cherokee or no one, has a dealer, it's a '98 or older engine, so you can't rely on your mileage on the gauge cluster because it won't be correct, this is a '97 engine. , so you have a distributor, when you rebuilt a new engine, it was going to be a new engine with what you call, not a distributor, but spark plugs, not hail, you know what I'm talking about. I'll put it right here because I can't think right now what they're called but it's a newer style and I have the setup for it but I can't put it on this engine you need to look up this intake manifold.

Okay, this is a 99mm style oh. The intake manifold has better flow than the old school horseshoe or is this a horseshoe when the old school ones didn't have as good flow. I put this one here for a little better performance and it has been working. This fuel rail is actually, outside of an o1, it's a fuel rail with pre-98 injectors. I'm going to replace them with four complete injectors. Do you need to look and see if these have Chrysler on on these injectors or if they have something like forward on them? They've advanced it, so someone has done a four hole injector change, what else are the common things that the old man and I look for for leaks?

Obviously we're looking for the man. I think it could be. Oh tailgate, tailgate, always check your back hatch, a lot of these, the back hatch won't open, mine opens thankfully, but if it doesn't open I guess I'll open it here, no no, I got a lot of shit here if the rear hatch does not open. You can go in here, you can put your hand in here and you can pull it and it will open and then you just take that whole piece off and you can go in there. It's a threaded bar with one thing. that clips around him and on my black Jeep.

What are you? I think I used a hose clamp on my Jeep, really simple fix, let's see the rust, yeah I think that's it, oh really. Springs, if it has an original spring look to see if. it's still bent or if it's flattened if it's flattened it's worn out and you're going to have to replace them, ninety percent of the time you're going to have to replace them anyway or if you're going to buy the four-wheel drive -Drive a Jeep, you're going to put a kit on it of elevation and that's not going to matter too much, man.

I think that's all. Look for a transmission cooler. I thought it was my radiator. I don't know. I have a transmission cooler. You will find that the transmission cooler will rise and be a little shorter than your radiator, but look for a transmission cooler. There are some models of Jeep Cherokees that came out with the transmission cooler, most of them have it. It was added after the fact, but you'll get better transmission cooling with it, so that's a plus, but everything I've told you so far has been a bargain. Well, you can negotiate the price of your Jeep a little lower. otherwise I'll just give you, for example, this Jeep with no engine and a clean title.

I gave $300 for the black Jeep with no title and a working engine. I drove home. I gave 400 dollars for it. and then change the engine and do all the gaskets, let's say it's 700 dollars that I had on two jeeps, do all the gasket parts, a new battery, all that good stuff. In fact, I got about $1200 on this Jeep after I fixed it up. I received a total Jeep drive insurance, it still has a clean title because it's old, but the insurance company totaled a Jeep and they sent me a check for two seven hundred dollars I think, or two eight hundred after my buyback, so after I told him they wanted to keep the Jeep, they took off what they thought was a fair buyback price and sent me a check for 27 or 2800 dollars which I put new tires on and the lift on this lift is a thousand dollar kit from a country hilly.

As far as the lifts go, I was happy with it and then paid for the parts I had charged for. I loaded the parts at the local napa andthen I put the tires on there and that and then I paid the taxes and that took I take care of the rest of the things I wanted to do to this jeep. Basically, right now I have no money in this jeep if you consider the money that insurance paid me, but in total I have about twelve hundred dollars of my own money that I put into this Jeep twelve hundred dollars for an O one running and driving a Four wheel drive Jeep is nothing, it's super cheap, so if you are thinking about buying a Jeep and have just a little bit of mechanical skills, you can build one of these.

I'll explain it to you this way. I had never done an engine change or anything like that. Especially on a vehicle, I have done basic maintenance and upkeep on a vehicle. I've worked on motorcycles most of my life with the old man. I've helped him work on some of his older projects and Camaros and things like that, but as far as doing it myself, a complete engine change and four-wheel drive, two-wheel drive before conversion to all-wheel drive. wheels, I've never done anything like that. I

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ed Jeep beeping videos and a lot of Jeep Cherokee videos on YouTube and we'll actually link the Jeep beeping video at the end of this or the believe in juice channel at the end of this and just my basic mechanical knowledge, basic tool knowledge manuals and how to use them, and then on YouTube I got this thing.

I finished and drove and it took me about seven to ten days and I built this thing, it's not hard, guys, it's not hard to do. I took pictures of the engine bay before removing everything and then removed everything, a lot of it. things that I left, well, the brake master cylinder is original to this vehicle, all my air conditioning things are original to this vehicle, okay, fuse box, all that stuff, they are all original to this vehicle, literally, it The only thing under this engine compartment I changed was the engine, but Now you have to keep in mind one thing I had to do when going from a 97 transmission to a 101 vehicle.

Some of my plugs didn't work. If you are going to do this, you must remember it. Please note: this plug works. to the transmission, I had to cut the end, right, I had to cut the end of my previous transmission, cut the end of this transmission or, sorry, cut the end of the transmission oh one and cut the end of the transmission 97 and I had to wire it to fit the plug on this harness. I didn't want to cut the harness because I once switched to an a.1 four wheel drive transmission it will just plug in so cutting them off the transmissions the other thing is I had to plug the loom in here because when I swapped this manifold out intake, the setup on this intake manifold is different, so this plug here where it goes was here on the previous one, so I had to extend those wires no big deal, it's very easy to do.

I used heat shrink tubing and electrical tape to make sure it was sealed and airtight. I did the same thing underneath on a couple of the transmission, a couple of plugs that weren't there. true, but those are just things that as you come across, you'll fix them now if you're doing a pre-98 for pre-98 swap, everything should connect fine if you're doing a 99201 swap in those three years, everything should connect fine , that's all I have, oh, the other thing is if the cruise control doesn't work, if your cruise control doesn't work, the cruise control module is down here, there's a dial inside, I find it hard to see that have.

To remove this cover from the bumper and behind, here is a sphere that is the vacuum for the cruise control. I have to change this one to the bike Jeep because the cruise control doesn't work on this anyway guys that's it. smells a little longer video than I had anticipated but it will be okay this is something I think you need to know if you are thinking of buying a Jeep Cherokee I have some water on my phone excuse me this is something I I need to know if you're going to look at a Jeep Cherokee because Dad and I bought a pair that had these problems that we discovered later and then we had to figure it out and we would have bought them at least a little cheaper.

I would have tried it if we had known beforehand, so anyway, this has been the Bootheel kid showing you what to look for in your Jeep Cherokees that you are looking to buy, as always, thanks for

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