Checking the engine is a exceptional dawning for troubleshooting your jeep.
You're delayed for duty, your jeep won't initiate, and nowadays you're stressed elsewhere bull epoch. In this context it can be consolidated to expect of all the troubleshooting steps you can complete to receive your Jeep going again. Happily, due its spacious engine compartment, the troubleshooting steps for a nonstarting jeep are elementary to perform.
Instructions
The Battery
1. Assign your vital into the ignition and turn the interpretation as though you are trying to begin your jeep.
2. Turn on your headlights.
3. Bias away of your jeep and proof to gape if the headlights came on.
4. Administer the hood provided the headlights did not come on.
5. Look the cables running from the battery to remainder of the engine.9. Tighten any cables that fondle loose or are disconnected by urgent them into the connecting slot.
Scrape off any corrosion with your screwdriver. Bag caution when working with the battery. Acid from the battery can harm clothing and skin.
8. Allot the battery.6. See the battery for corrosion, which looks agnate chalky crust on the battery terminals.7.
10. Go your headlights again. Whether they yet arrange not office, best shot jump-starting the battery.
Jump-Start
11. Treasure another vehicle to jump-start your battery.
12. Connect one confine of the persuaded jumper cable (nearly always blooming) to the pleasant cell (which is nearly always blooming with "+" on it) of the dead jeep battery.
13. Connect the other end of the red jumper cable to the positive cell of the charged car battery.
14. Connect one end of the negative (black) jumper cable to the negative post (it will have a "-" on it) of the charged car battery.
15. Connect the other end of the negative jumper cable (black) to a solid, non-paint-coated metal part of the engine of the dead jeep.
16. Start your jeep and let it run for 5 minutes. If the problem is a dead battery, then this will charge it. Do not start the car that has the live battery.
17.Disconnect all cables in the opposite order that you connected them. Do not let the cables touch one another or you could cause a short in the electrical systems of either car. If jump-starting the battery does not work, then check the starter.
The Starter
18. Open the hood of the jeep.
19. Follow the positive (red) cable from the battery all the way to the starter. The starter is shaped like a soda can but is larger than one.
20. Stare at the starter; you should see two poles sticking out of one side.
21. Place the metal part of your screwdriver across the two poles so that you form an electrical connection. Be sure to touch only the handle of the screwdriver.
22. Listen for the sound of the starter. If you hear it running, than your starter is fine. If it does not run, then you may need to replace it. You do not need to begin your jeep at this point.
23. Check all of the connections from the starter to the battery, too as the connections from the starter to remainder of the engine.
24. Tighten any loose wires and replace any severed ones by pressing them firmly into the correct slots.
25. If the starter works but your jeep is still not running, you'll need to test the alternator. You will need to bring your vehicle to an auto parts dealer for an alternator test. Fortunately, if the problem is the alternator, you will probably be able to jump-start the jeep and get enough power to begin it once.
