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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