Jeep cranks and wants to start but won’t
 

I had that issue and mine was a rotten wire mesh cable between the
engine head and firewall.

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

jeepgirl wrote:
>
> Hi,
> My 96 Jeep Cherokee 4.0 (it actually uses 97 factory parts) just shut
> off on me while driving on the local road today. When I crank it it
> does sound like it is going to catch - a couple of times it actually
> catches for a couple of seconds then shuts off. We thought it was the
> crankshaft position sensor and we changed that but we are still having
> that issue. Until not this baby has given us no problems with starting
> up. Does anyone have any ideas? :(
>
> Thanks so much
>
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TRY AN IDLE AIR CONTROL VALVE. THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME ON TWO
DIFFERENT CARS, BOTH WERE THIS VALVE. IF THE ENGINE CRANKS AND YOU CAN
KEEP IT RUNNING BY HOLDING DOWN THE ACCELERATOR, THIS IS LIKELY YOUR
PROBLEM.