So this thread might be relevent (http://www.wranglerforum.com/f210/new-battery-now-wont-run-idle-properly-1851777.html) but my problem isn't/can't be correlated with a battery swap.
Today it was a bit colder in Colorado, but nothing like Winter. This morning my rig's engine took maybe a second or two longer to turn over, but all was fine until I ran out for lunch 5 hours later. Weirdness and rumbling coming from the right-rear.
Riding home (only two miles) the CEL would flash at about 1 Hz, turn off, stay solid, etc. It seemed to happen more during acceleration in first and second gear (6-speed manual). When I got home, the I took a quick peep under the hood and at the exhaust--which smelled weird, though I can't say I've taken a good whiff of it before.
There's a noticeable rumble-and-shake taking off in first/second gear, but nothing evil like a death wobble. I'm hoping I need an oil change, for which I'm well overdue, but paranoid something else is amiss.
As I mentioned in the title, too, the engine is idling low. Maybe too low. And this just happened: no new mods short of replacing dissolved battery lugs a few weeks ago--and tightening them solid--as well as adding a new stereo before that. I run a solar (50W) panel since I'm retarded and sometimes leave the lights or stereo on with the engine cut--rarely, though, but I did leave the lights on for a couple hours today... so, hmm--but I don't see why I'd have the problem unless, perhaps, my timing belt got jarred? Or my alternator is about to hit the other side of the dirt? God, I hope it's not the latter. Or spark plugs? I really don't know much about the under-the-hood stuff short of the battery,,, I've learned quite a bit, but I'm still a noob having only worked on it for two years.
Any smoking guns?
Today it was a bit colder in Colorado, but nothing like Winter. This morning my rig's engine took maybe a second or two longer to turn over, but all was fine until I ran out for lunch 5 hours later. Weirdness and rumbling coming from the right-rear.
Riding home (only two miles) the CEL would flash at about 1 Hz, turn off, stay solid, etc. It seemed to happen more during acceleration in first and second gear (6-speed manual). When I got home, the I took a quick peep under the hood and at the exhaust--which smelled weird, though I can't say I've taken a good whiff of it before.
There's a noticeable rumble-and-shake taking off in first/second gear, but nothing evil like a death wobble. I'm hoping I need an oil change, for which I'm well overdue, but paranoid something else is amiss.
As I mentioned in the title, too, the engine is idling low. Maybe too low. And this just happened: no new mods short of replacing dissolved battery lugs a few weeks ago--and tightening them solid--as well as adding a new stereo before that. I run a solar (50W) panel since I'm retarded and sometimes leave the lights or stereo on with the engine cut--rarely, though, but I did leave the lights on for a couple hours today... so, hmm--but I don't see why I'd have the problem unless, perhaps, my timing belt got jarred? Or my alternator is about to hit the other side of the dirt? God, I hope it's not the latter. Or spark plugs? I really don't know much about the under-the-hood stuff short of the battery,,, I've learned quite a bit, but I'm still a noob having only worked on it for two years.
Any smoking guns?