In this video we have a look at a customer 2006 Jeep Wrangler with the big 4.0 and the customer complaint is it won't charge. Now they changed the alternator and it still won't charge. It is a Chrysler product so guessing it has a bad ground is a pretty good guess but what one and how do we know for sure....Simple we test it.
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And Folks Gotta work on this. Jeep Wrangler it's a Rubicon it says I'm not sure what year it is here. take a look here. 2006.

with a very expired inspection sticker over a year old. Um, apparently this thing has been sitting for like a year or for a very long time because it won't charge, starts and runs and everything just won't charge. Oh and the money lights on. Okay, so that's probably why the inspector which it might have codes for something to do with the charging system.

Obviously they've you know, thrown an alternator at it and that didn't work. So I took the alternator back off I guess and put the the OG back in there. We'll go in and have a look see if we can't figure it out. Hopefully Chrysler So we all know it's got a background, right? It's typically the case in these things.

Shut the camera, flash some codes out of it here. 22 I Don't know what that means in a 32. that's an oxygen sensor 38 That's an O2 sensor 52. That's an O2 sensor 58.

That's an O2 sensor. Those are I think all two O2 heater codes. So there we know what's wrong with it. Now it's got a broken ground wire behind the starter.

Hooray! Put it in as a 06 Wrangler 4-0 Uh, what is it? G105 Is that what they call it? Jupiter And stupider because it's always just the same repeat pattern failures. Uh, we need to find G105 Okay, here we go: G105 What does that run? PCM Oxygen sensors all of this stuff AC Compressor front Locker blah blah blah Parsian pressure switch PCM rent a whole bunch of crap. That's kind of hoping it ran the Uh was the ground for the regulator. Well I Guess we could do a real diagnosis just to be sure.

but at any rate, it sounds like she probably has two problems if she has all those. O2 I think those are O2 heater codes oh I can see whoa Uh, let's see here. so there's the alternator. um I was thinking something different here I was thinking B6 um, it's kind of funny I guess the right ground number though.

Uh, let's just do some preliminary checks I guess before we jump to conclusions. uh, like I said I was thinking a little newer V6 uh, the ground. that's over there. but yeah I should have known when we cranked this thing up that it was 4-0 Before we jump to conclusions of the Broken Ground This is where you can get yourself in trouble.

It's you know, rabbit trailing on pattern failures, which you know in some cases if they're really easy to get to or like. Oh yep, there Blue pointed the problem. It's gonna take us just a little bit of time just to actually check the generator. you know, is it charging? You know? Let's just make sure we don't have voltage drop that PO 622 that's in it I think with the 622, Um, I'm pretty sure it was I think that's a generator circuit generator field circuit code.

So let's just do some checks. The alternator is super easy to get to. I Think there's only three wires on it. Yeah, there's only three wires according to our diagram, so we can do some very basic preliminary checks and then we'll take our diagnosis from there.
It's kind of a hard spot to get the camera in here. Obviously, it's the alternator. three wires. We've got our big wire coming from the battery.

Okay, we've got the alternator itself. so that's the big, you know case. ground, engine, block, ground. We'd have to be concerned about that that we know a little bit about Chryslers and their terrible history with actual grounds.

Our wires back here. These two wires. One of these is a ground and one of these is the field control wire. Okay, so we're gonna go right first and foremost and just check the ground.

So I'm just going to use our standard test light. I'm going to come back to the battery over here. We're going to hook it on the battery. Positive.

Okay, so anything we touched as a ground is should light up our test light. You know, within reason, we're going to unplug this and just check the ground. First of all, we have a ground. Then we're going to carry out the rest of our tests.

If not, we're going to go chasing our bad ground. Okay So we've got a brown wire. Looks like a brown with green according to our diagram. Round of green is the generator field wire and the brown with black.

It's the ground. so it's this one Here should be a ground and we and we have no ground. It doesn't light up our light, but our light works so that's it. That's the end of our diagnosis.

The show's over, and um, we know based on our guesses or what I'm telling you is that those other codes that were flashing are likely O2 heater codes. So we can prove the theory here. we can back probe. let's put a ground on it and the alternator should work.

so let's do that well. I Guess I might have to unplug it or get my glasses one or the other. There we go. We'll just do this.

Take this needle where it's back, probing it with a t-pen here. So I want to get down beside the wire insulation there. All right. We should be in there good enough.

and then we're just gonna stick up a jumper wire on it here. and I'm just going to go right over to the battery. Negative: Hopefully we're probed in there enough. Let's see, this is negative, right? That's correct.

All right. let's go start this thing up, see if we have a good probe in there. Hopefully detergent now appears to be. Let's go check it with an actual Volt meter.

All right. Well, that's good. And as we unhook our ground wire to watch our voltage diminished with our Gun Wire back up, you hear the elevators run a little bit. There we go.

Now we're going back towards maybe yeah I Just got really crappy connections here. Anyhow, proves our Theory hours typical buying G105 or wherever that all-nighter ground goes. Well, she didn't tell me about her engine light and the other problems, but looking for her? this one problem will fix all the problems. But where is alternator grown? Oh G105 it says right there so that makes sense.
So that's with all the all the other stuff. So let's find that I have to assume that it's that one right there. and hence it's that one because it says right rear of engine block. In a typical Chrysler fashion, they stick a whole bunch of grounds in one little crimp, so I'm just going to pull that off and we're just gonna redo all of them because we've got a lot of codes for a lot of grounds and then that ground wire probably comes directly from the battery is going to be my guess.

Yeah, he's got got one big one going up here for the batter for the body and then that other ground going to the engine block. So let me pull that off there and see if we can't get that fixed up. All right? Okay, zoom in. you're doing everything here.

We gotta go right next to me. did you find the right button? Yeah, it's recording this time. you said the button on the back I Didn't know what was on the side, not on the top. No professional here.

Well, prices right though. Yeah, so it's all things whoa. You seems like you're super close to me. Okay, where do you want me to go? Oh I don't know I don't think they can actually see what I'm doing anyways.

so I could if I zoomed in. really good. We don't call it zoom in. We can enhance it.

really good. It ends. You actually have to say that I thought you were standing for me. No, you gotta like.

If you do that, you gotta say I don't know what you got going on over there I don't I'm just holding the camera with it on this time. good. Give this little crimpy new bed I'm sadder. Uh, we'll get rid of a little dab here because we like to tick everybody's trigger box.

Tell me about another video. Oh really, you don't just try to get my goat and then be like, why are you so upset I don't see that you're making me sound like a jerk figure. You're a man. These people think we have a good relationship.

We do have a good relationship I Learned how to just let it go. Oh I Do get your goat just because it's easy. see or not being honest now I'm being honest. It's easy.

Yeah, because you know me for 20 years, you're gonna know how to get my goat. If you get it for real then um yeah I get you I just get you pumped. That's all. Um, and this is not looking good.

There we go. I Had a boy cutting years off my life. They're getting me all pumped I'm not cutting yourself. Let's see.

oh how are we gonna find out about that Like if you die I'll be like man she told me she told me so I'll remind you when I'm dying. Oh yeah. oh but you can't like if you get hit by a bus or something. you can't be like I told you like your last words like no, you got hit by a bus That says nothing to do with me I'll say I would have seen that bus coming if I wasn't so flustered.

Oh let's see you ready to trip some triggers. Why you don't do this quite yeah, right. There are There are at least two things you don't do on the internet. Well, three that I know of.
Okay, I'm pretty sure I know one of them. which is what. I'm not thinking anything naughty. there's a lot of naughty stuff on the internet.

Well, it shouldn't be I know. but there's if you want to trip people's triggers. a weld anything I don't care if you've got every welding certification known to man. If you weld on YouTube you're doing it wrong.

Period. B Side or a wire or crimple wire. Or make any type of wiring repair, crimp it and then solder it. Yes, that will just this way.

we can piss everybody off and crimp it. That pisses off the side of people. You solder it. It pisses off the crimping people.

I Don't know where it is. Where is it? Where's what? Stone Hill There it is. It's right here. so little in my little screen.

Oh so I Want to zoom in? Yeah. I Want to enhance it. Don't enhance? Yes. and then Three C will call it.

the other thing you can do that pisses people off that. I've recently learned from watching YouTube videos is pour concrete If you do any video that has Concrete in it. Everybody hates you and you're doing it wrong. So a lot of professional welder solder concrete people on the YouTubes So sweet in the poly out.

Yes ma'am So there's this one guy watching the NC I'm just waiting for that to cool. Uh, he does. He's not even a concrete pouring guy, but he found that pisses people off and now he gets millions of views. It's fantastic I Envy him I Just wish I would have thought of that because he just does videos on point concrete.

Now just just to piss people off has no no purpose of doing it. You envy somebody just pissing people off. No, because he's really driving a lot of views to his channel over absolutely nothing. and I think it's brilliant.

Is that why you just soldered that wire? Yeah, well I would have done that I would have done IRL but it does. Maybe the guy who's trying to prevent his concrete? No, no, he's just doing it because it gets people to go because he's a man. That's what we do I feel weird when you shutting that camera at me all the time. It's I don't know.

like I got something in my teeth I always pointing at the ceiling when there's nothing else to look at. This is a video after all, not a vlog with you that doesn't make sense cast. Oh I See you want to see? Yeah, what you're saying, it's a video I Gotta freak out because I got people sitting on this fender I can tell you everything they're going to talk about. Talk about this tender.

Yeah, because I got my tools sitting on this lady's fender. Why does that matter? Because a real car Guys, this is not I don't think this person cares. No I know. but some people don't understand that.

it's a rusty pile of poo. Yeah, it's pretty Rusty yeah like there's a hole in the fender. I'm just hoping my tools don't fall through under the ground. So yeah, obviously it's this thing was knit.
Oh yeah, we wouldn't be I went I wouldn't have my Tools in there, but that's what I was telling you the other day. that's sometimes I Don't like it when a customer comes in with a really nice clean car. like oh, this sucks Yeah, be careful. I gotta be all careful and nice and clean.

I like it when they come in with it. stinky cigarette smoke. nasty I smell like cat urine I know, but maybe something more like our vehicles not spot. Oh yeah, if you left a little dirt behind, we really wouldn't notice.

Yeah I don't know about that. My truck's pretty clean. We need to go look at it. My truck's pretty clean.

Yeah because I've cleaned it I Know that's why my truck's clean because you clean it for me. Yeah, but it's not spotless right now. It's because you haven't cleaned it lately. My car is never spotless.

Day one, that's it. And then the children get in it. Where is it? I can't I can't see it at all I'll show you in a minute. See, come on, can you see it happen? Show the people here now.

I can see it. make sure you zoom in. No. I did.

No people aren't used to having a camera lady I've got a tiny little screen and I can't see these things well you can't zoom in and show my nasty fingernail Why? I Just thought because then they'll be like oh bro man I want the story behind your fingernail and then I tell them and they're like oh, that's not. It's not as exciting as I thought it was going to be I just make stuff up when they ask what, what's the story, then the real story no the fake story Oh Tom I got it pinched and slammed between something just you just gotta make crap up What? Yeah, because if you tell them like oh, I have psoriatic arthritis and that's just the way my fingernails grow because I have an autoimmune disorder that is like oh, you should start a group or something hey I don't know whatever. Report page: yeah I don't know whatever people do, Well, that's not a bad thing. Support: Pages aren't bad.

It gives a place for people to reflect I reflect every time I whack my fingernail I'm like mother. hey, you know what reflectors I Got the information for the RFA on the Facebook support page. Oh yeah, yeah. and if I wasn't on there I would have have only half my thyroid right now.

Uh, we're out of food though, out of fluid film I don't have any down here. Oh you know what I did through a piano. Wow, this is what it comes to. This is what it comes to right here boys.

It kind of like might still have my little Sprites left in it. Oh let's see. Oh yeah, Oh yeah, Oh oh lots of stuff. Threw that away I knew you were gonna say that.

oh my gosh I just stuck it there I'm Really Gonna recycle it. we gotta get a meter. Are you ready 10.4 on a Thursday night Thursday night. Should we tell the people where that came from? Sure.
I'm pretty sure that he had like a Super Trooper meow bet going on. and yeah, so we went to the rodeo last night and the announcer must have had a bet going with somebody else you know like on Super Troopers where you know they got to say meow So many times this guy had to say Wednesday night so many times because he's like he would announce whoever was doing anything I don't know on a Wednesday night Here Comes Vanessa all around the mole they call wait trash on a Wednesday night it got to the point it was like stupid I know that's why I'm like this is he had to have a bet going because he said Wednesday night at least like 85 times I know you're on Wednesday night So that's all we said on the way home on a Wednesday night and now it's Thursday Thursday So it's everything here's happening on a Thursday night. That's it folks. We got this baby done.

Um I'm gonna clear the codes out of it for the girl. Thanks for recording with us Mr Joe um look at that. Hopefully you can make something out of it. Oh my enhancing we're gonna try and uh after I clear the codes out of this.

Let's say he's going to try to get it through a drive cycle. She did not ask me to look at the check engine light. so I'm not going to take that any further. but we've seen with all four of those codes.

If you look them up, they're probably heater codes and they probably all go back to G105. But we did fix what we came to fix and now with battery charging, generator not charging and that was a background so that's it. Do you have anything else to say here on a Thursday night? I Can't believe we're leaning on the studio color right now. That's okay.

no no. Anyhow, I Don't want you guys to do a big No-No by not going in that comment section Comments: Questions: concern, density the Facebook You guys know where to find us just from our viewers. If I can do it, you can do it. Thanks for watching foreign.

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