HERE S WHATS WRONG WITH MY SECOND JEEP GRAND WAGONEER RESCUE

On today's episode of WatchJRGO, we are back in the shop and we're going to continue the fight with Grand Wagoneer number two. And hopefully today we get this thing to run on its own power. What is going on guys? I am WatchJRGO and today, like I said, we are back in the shop with my 1991 Jeep Grand Wagoneer. This is an SJ Grand Wagoneer, a final edition at that. On this one, the bad glass works. As you guys know, I've got two of these and on the other one, the other one doesn't roll down, which is a little bit sad, but this one does move. And in the last video, we troubleshot this thing for quite a while. And where we ended up was it runs on starting fluid. Of course, we've got spark. You know, we pulled this thing out of the field where it had been abandoned for a very long time and we started going through everything, right? So spark, fuel, all the fun stuff. And then we found out that we can't suck fuel through the fuel line. We even got the fuel pump out of here, tested it. And I know you'll have to watch the video with my mom's car to see a few minutes of us testing this, but my dad was over here and we checked the fuel pump real quick. Just had the fuel pump was good. Now I have to go get a new fuel pump gasket because when I tore it off and shredded the fuel pump gasket, I was as careful as possible. It was going to break. So here's what's left of the gasket right there. And now after all that troubleshooting, we still can't get any fuel up here. And that's because if you pull a vacuum on the line from the tank, nothing happens. And if you blow air through the return, you can force gasoline up that line, but that's the only way it works. And I did manage to get that electric fuel pump on here and try to make that pump fuel out of that line. It doesn't work either, but if you put air on it, it blows fuel out. So a lot of you guys had some comments on this. Of course, I immediately went to the fuel pickup itself is bad. We see those things rust off all the time in these old cars that sit forever, right? The pickups are like galvanized steel. They sit there in like a water ethanol mix and the whole end rusts off. And that is the end of the road for those fuel pickups. Or if they have a sock, the sock gets clogged up. There's just so many reasons that it wouldn't be able to get fuel out of the tank, but you guys had some other ideas. And those were a collapsed rubber fuel line at the tank. Now we know it's not the one up here because everything up here has new fuel line on it already. Like when somebody put that pump on there, which isn't that old at all, they put a new line in the front and that line looks great. I know it's not collapsing. And also we've pulled directly on the steel line as well with the vacuum pump and there's no way we had a problem there. It's a brand new hose. But I have forgotten a critical thing that the comments had mentioned on the gray one. And that was that you can access this fuel pump or this fuel pickup, the fuel pumps in the front, of course, from the back seat here, which if this is true, it would be absolutely amazing. Look how nasty this thing is. It has been sitting for a very, very long time. Now, I don't know how this seat moves yet. We're going to have to try to figure that out here. I don't see a latch on the back. It clearly does move. There's a little hinge right there. Smells like my Rolls Royce in here. It's got that old, thick, plush carpet smell. But somehow we need to get this entire seat out of here so we can look at the fuel tank and the cinder and the pickup. Also, the cinder appears to be bad too. The cinder was bad in the other one. I assume it's bad in this one. There's a hinge here on the front and it looks like, I mean, it definitely, definitely this flips up. So we have to figure out how this flips so we can figure out how everything flips. Is there a latch in here? I think it's been hit. I mean, it has been hit, but when you open this door, you feel it sag down just a little bit. We've got the armrest for this door sitting right here. So let's get that out of the way. Is this how you open the seat? It is. Look at that. All right, guys. Let me, I need two hands to do this. It's not a one-handed operation, but I think this is one of those flip this and then flip that. So I flipped the back down and now that's all you got to do. Yeah. Well, we got to get the seat belt out of here, but that is all you have to do. Look at all this food. Now, better than ever. Proactive. Man. Do you guys remember proactive? All the commercials 20 years ago, maybe 2009. Yeah. Almost 20 years ago. That's crazy to say, man. And then what's this? A tribute to the man, John Wayne style collectible. The Duke. It's not even real. It's a style, decorative use only, not a firearm. Oh, there's some boots back here. Look at that. Somebody really wanted to be John Wayne. Platform cowboy boots, I guess. It looks like our next step here is peeling this carpet back and we'll just roll it back and see if there's actually an access panel here. I would love it. If there was, I found a street elbow half inch 90 street, man, that's going in the copper box right there. You can never have enough, uh, old school copper fittings. Unfortunately, this is all spider webs and or mold. I'm going to vacuum this out real quick before we get after this. Uh, I did put on gloves already cause this is all very, very nasty, but I'm going to clean it up for just a moment. And then we'll start peeling the carpet up. Well, I didn't spend too much time with the vacuum, but I will say this looks 1 million times better. Uh, I stopped right over there because it's really hard to get in here. Even if the seats flipped up, I mean, this was a different era. Now, can you imagine if people had to like even contort their body a little bit to get to the back of a car, the world would riot. Like this is why we don't build cars like they used to. It's simply not ergonomic at all. You have to be like my size or smaller to squeeze in the back of these things. But with that said, we can flip the carpet up here. See if we can give it a little yank and get it over that home. All right. So there's no big access panel. Like everyone said, there's a very small riveted in access panel, but let's drill out those rivets and uh, see what we see. What awaits here should be hopefully just an easy to get to cinder, but it's a small hole, a very small hole. I will say it's right over the fuel tank. The fuel tank is right there. So it's right where it needs to be. Shout out to those rivets guys. They drilled out so nicely. That's why I left it in real time. You really can't beat those blind fasteners that just come right out like that. So now that we're in here, we can see our fuel cinder, which is very rusty and the return and the suction line. And this should be the vent in here somewhere. And of course our electrical connections to the cinder itself. So I don't see anything wrong here, right? Like these hoses are garbage and yes, you can crush them, but they're not, they're not like rotted off right there. So let's get this thing in the air and see what we're dealing with and then pull the cinder out after that. I just want to see if we can find like a collapse line on the frame or something like that. So I got the lift all set up. Let's get the Grand Wagoneer in the air and take a look underneath and figure out just where this is all breaking down. It could just be those hoses internally. Underneath the Grand Wag, let's see what we're working with here. First of all, it doesn't look that rusty, which is very cool. Underneath it might be a very solid truck still. Big diff leak for sure. You can see where the were when we moved it. Oh, look at that. It's got a torn shock mount. That's super, super odd. Huh. And I really don't understand what happened here. Like how did it get torn up at the very top of the shock? That is super weird. Super weird. Anyway, here's our tank. Big old guard under the tank. Here's one of the lines. Ooh, look at that. The metal line itself is crushed right there. Absolutely crushed. How did that happen? It looks like the exhaust came up and slammed in. First of all, this muffler is trash too. How do they both have mufflers that are just cracked in the middle? So this one is absolutely ruined. The muffler has been can openered. That is a pretty wild thing. I've never seen anything like it. Straight down the center. Must've been super rusty. The weep hole has a little rust around it there. And of course, it's leaking around the outlet a little bit. So anyway, muffler needs to go in the trash. That needs a new one. And I just don't see the return or the supply. I can't tell which one's So then it comes up here. Then it's a soft line. Oh, it's already been repaired. Okay. Okay. It used to hang up here on these clips, but the clips have been pulled out. The airline to the cat has been cut and replaced, which should have just been capped. Anything else in here that's fun? You know, that's what I don't get is that this shouldn't be a fuel line. The fuel line should be in this bundle right here of these three lines. I wouldn't doubt that the fuel line here is crushed as well. So the return, yeah, you can see that brand new hose is the supply and the one under it is the return. Oh, there's some pieces of a belt down here too. What belt do you guys think this is? Oh, the secondary belt that went to the, yeah, the second belt that picks up the alternator on the water pump. It just shredded itself. Interesting. So the fuel lines that we're worried about are these ones right here. The three stacked up above the brake proportioning valve there. Everything's zip tied up to them. And really we can't see a single thing. Oh, so if we're going to work on this, the skid plate for the tank has to come down. Has to come down. How do you get it out of there? Oh, look at those body mounts. They've seen better days. I bet this thing, it's probably fine, you know, but it might be a little bouncy if that rubber is that bad. But anyway, a lot of oil, as you would expect, nothing new there. Probably rear main, front main, trans pan, leak, all the usuals under these old cars. But with that said, we got to figure out how to get the skid plate down. So it looks like if we want to see those hoses or change them, we would have to drop the skid plate, drop the tank, because there's no access to those hoses. I don't know what that mystery hose is that runs up to the front. It might have been EVAP, which would make a lot more sense, right? Because the fuel line and the return line usually run beside each other. So maybe those are fine. There's a chance they're fine. Let's get the cinder out first before we go through all of the trouble of dropping the skid plate, because it doesn't look like it's going to come out very well. Some of the metal that the bolts go through doesn't exist anymore. So as soon as I try to pop those bolts loose, that metal is going to twist off and it's just a cascade of failures after that. And I'm sure there's no replacement parts. So let's start with the cinder because that's the easiest thing to do at this point. We are making progress, guys. Now, everything already smells like gas because I got in here and tried to clean up what I was working with. I got the hoses unhooked and I got the cinder unhooked, which was a lot of work. The spade terminal that connects to the ground on the cinder tried to rust into oblivion. Let's jump in here. All right. So this guy was totally stuck. I soaked it with knocker loose and then wiggled and wiggled and wiggled. Luckily got it off without ripping the spade terminal off the cinder. This guy full of green corrosion. So I cycled it a few times. Hopefully that's better. And we can also see the wire colors after spraying with knocker loose red and black right there. And of course I popped off both hoses. So these hoses are pretty toasty, but at the same time, they're not collapsed inside. I can lift down them. And not only that, I got a little bit of dirt out of them. So they could be clogged up. There is a chance that they're clogged up, but let's push those aside here. And I started loosening up the cinders nut with my channel locks here, the Milwaukee channel locks. We don't want to give too much credit to the wrong brand here, you know, let's see. So this has a, a permanent hose clamp on it too. I don't know if I'm going to be able to easily work around the vent, but we'll just keep unscrewing here. It looks like the nuts coming off. Oh, look at that. The nut did come off. Oh, and the whole cinder is loose. All right. Does that have an O-ring seal or anything? It has a mud seal. That's for sure. Before I pull this, I'm going to vacuum and try to get all this trash out of here because it's going to go everywhere. And let's see how dirty this is. Pretty filthy. We'll clean up that nut really well before it goes back in. Judging by the barnacle land, we're working in at the moment, I'm kind of assuming this is going to be bad. So far, so not good. Oh yeah. I don't want to drop that sock. I'm going to get two hands in there, but the sock is absolutely toast. Back to our air testing here. I went ahead and took the air hose and blew through the return and the supply line. And as soon as I blew through the supply line, as you guys would assume, nothing came out of the return at all, which I would think might be kind of empty, but all of this gas, the whole hood was wet here just a second ago. You can see where it's all very wet around the light and everything. So a lot of gas came out of the supply. And then I want to show you guys the cinder here and the sock that I had to rescue. Things look bad. Things look very, very bad here. So for some reason, you know, cinder didn't work. Oh, it's locked up, isn't it? Oh yeah. She's locked up. Huh. It's weird that it was giving me full resistance. I've never seen one that's so hard to move. It feels like it's got an oil-based pot on it. Oh, you know what? It might have an oil pot on it. I actually think that's an oil pot. What a crazy thing to do. Instead of having your gas gauge swing or putting a dead band in the electronics, they put a mechanical dead band in that bad boy. First time for everything, an oil dampened pickup. But the sock here split, trash. I mean, this thing just fell apart. I was barely able to grab it before it fell into the tank. So that's what's left of the sock right there. The return dumps directly into the fuel. So, you know, we obviously wouldn't have been getting any fuel back through there, but the fuel in the tank looks pretty good too. Not the prettiest fuel I've ever seen, but let's put some light in there so you guys can see what we're dealing with. It's got a nice clear hue to it. You can see straight to the bottom. So a little, little bit of green, but I'm not worried about that. It is a plastic tank. So I think what we need here is a new sending unit. Well, guys, I just called around and for some reason, well, pretty obvious reason, nobody's working on these really. There are no sending units for this around. And honestly, it seems like it's kind of a rare sending unit too with that oil damper on there. So I think what we need to do with the rest of our time here today is put the front end back together. We got to put this fuel pump back on. So I'm going to go see if I can get the fuel pump gasket and start reassembling the front and putting on that flare nut. That was a huge pain. I think we finally got that moving. So I'm going to lubricate that, try to put the whole front end together, and then we could probably get it running. If we just put an extra piece of hose on there or even shove the sender back down into the fuel as is, and it would probably suck just fine. So let's go there. Let's let's see how far we can get. We might be able to make it run and then replace the sender once it shows up. Well, if you buy one Jeep Grand Wagoneer, you need one more. So you can take this one to get parts for the other one. Come on now. I know you guys know the rules. This one runs so well. We are off to the races with Grand Wagoneer number one, heading straight to O'Reilly's to pick up parts for this and for number two. All right, guys, we have arrived at O'Reilly's to pick up. Let's get some fuel treatment for this, a headlight because it has a completely burnt out headlight and the fuel pump gasket for the new one. Look at that. This is a whole Jeep rebuild kit right here. Thanks, bro. I'm getting out of here. I'm just going to dump this whole can in the tank and we'll see what happens. White smoke for days. All right. Later. Later. All right, guys. Anybody else love when cars start like this every single time? Maybe it is good. I kind of assumed this thing needed a tune up, maybe a touch of timing in there or something or the carburetor gone through. I mean, as you guys saw, the carburetor looked like it had just been rebuilt on this thing. So maybe everything on this one is just fine. But I kind of plan on having dad look at it when he came over. It starts so well and drives great. How crazy is this mirror image? I actually when I walked up and I saw it on the camera, I thought it was one of those old like trippy split things you used to play with when you were a kid where the books would like fold out and have two mirror images. Pretty wild to see the exact same two Grand Wagoneers in the same spot. But let's turn the lights on and see what's going on here. So I already came through and replaced a bunch of the marker lights. We got marker lights now. Oh, yeah. We don't have the rears, but I don't want to replace that back one because the one on the other side is completely broken. So if I replace one, it'll look weird. Anyway, here's our headlight. That one works. Sylvania Performance. And this one is dead. And this one is totally different. I don't know. It might be a guide or something like that. But who knows? Let's get this bulb out of here. These are actually very easy to change. You just pull all these Phillips screws and then pull all the screws off the surround and swap it out. But you can see it's full of water. So that would explain why the light quit working. Let's try this again. Lights. It's not even funny how much brighter that is. You can see it on the wall. All right. There's the old one. There's the new one. The glass. Just everything is so much better on these new ones. It's not even funny. Like, it is super, super bright compared to the one you can see on the TV there. Anyway, headlights back online. One problem down. And of course, as you guys would assume, the same driver's side headlight is bad on the other one. So we got to swap out another one here shortly. But I'll tell you what, this thing is bright. Here's our old one. Into the trash it goes. And let's put some seafoam in this thing. And then it just needs to be driven more and more fresh fuel. As if you need headlights for your Grand Wagoneer, they are H6054. So 6054, which I think is like the standard rectangle sealed beam. And then the fuel pump gasket is 6579. So we've got our Fell Pro fuel pump gasket here that fits basically everything. AMC, Chrysler products, Ford products, GM products, International, Jeep, Eagle, and Toyota. Absolutely wild. But that fuel pump must have went on everything. So with that said, let's put that fuel pump back on this one. And while we're doing that, I'm also going to dump half a bottle of seafoam into that one. And then we'll keep driving it around and things will only keep getting better with the twin Grand Wagoneers. Pretty crazy to see this. Like I said. I am not a seafoam believer in any way. I think this is just old school automotive lore. It's just funny. People like to see their engines smoking and stuff, but hey, we're going to just do it this time because why not? So I just put half a bottle in the blue one. And the coolest thing ever is I can just pour it right in the top of the tank. That's the best way I've ever seen to put fuel treatment in a tank. Well guys, there you go. The fuel pump is back on this thing with its new gasket and all that good stuff. A new sender is on the way. Like I said, unfortunately I couldn't just run down the street and grab one. One of the few times that I haven't been able to get something same day, but very shortly here, we will be back with this thing actually on the road. I know we could probably hack it together and make it run with some hose shoved in the fuel tank, but let's just finish it because I do want to go drive this around and the other one's running so well. It'll be cool to have twins. That is it for today, guys. Thank you so much for watching. Don't forget to head on over to shopwatchjroger.com for cool shirts just like this, and please like, share, subscribe, do whatever you want to do, and I will talk to you next time. And they look cool sitting together, but hey, now there's a Raptor in here instead of the other Grand Wagon. This is the modern Grand Wagoneer. This is what we've replaced everything with.