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I've pulled the resistor and it looks fine. I also pulled the blower motor on the assumption that it may be the root cause regardless. Are there any tests for the motor to verify if it's dying other than noise? I did find a problem with the fuse block under the driver side dash. Fuse socket...

Sorry, I didn't see page 2 and did a redundant update.

Hey guys, So it's sweltering hot last week and I get into my 94 Jeep Cherokee Country (automatic, 4.0L) and crank on the AC. The blower starts momentarily and then cuts off. Soon thereafter I smell that unique electrical fire smell and smoke starts pouring from under the dash primarily around...

So I am taking off my bad starter and after I get it free I notice that the bottom bolt (the one that goes through the starter into the block) has about three turns worth of the female threads from the block have stripped and are pressed into it. By my estimation, just kinda eyeballing the...

Update: New starter installed and it starts right up. I can't believe it. It's just so hard to not trust the parts store bench tests, but I guess you can't. Thanks, Greg! You were right all along.

Most of the parts stores around here have the whole starter/solenoid unit for less than $70. They all claim to be re-manufactured starters, so I assume they use the housings and rebuild the internals. So the price isn't bad. And I have found replacement NSS's for less than $50. At that price...

Greg, I didn't test for continuity using those corresponding sockets on the NSS side of the plug, but that's a great idea. I trusted the diagram and jumped the B and C with my lead. Interestingly though, the plug on the engine side is the male side in my Jeep. But every picture/video I have...

OK, hear are my multimeter results. All testing done with starter mounted and connected and NSS bypassed using a lead between the C and D pins in the harness connector on the engine side. 1) Battery tested 12.3 volts on both battery posts and at battery cables just past the clamps. Voltage...

Greg, So if I am reading the diagram correctly, a lead across B and C would allow any circuit testing which would involve the NSS to proceed as if the NSS were connected and working and the car in Park/Neutral. Do I have that right?

Greg, Hope I didn't sound ungrateful, your posts aren't tedious at all! I'm just a noob when it comes to this stuff so translating your words into what I am seeing under the hood is taking some translation effort, probably due to me not knowing the proper tech names for what I am seeing and...

Thanks for the replies! The relays (the larger black squares in the fuse box?) were checked. My Jeep has three of them and I switched them all around in all combinations and still a no-crank. As for the connections, I thoroughly cleaned the starter connections, the battery posts, and the cable...

Update: That retaining ring which was holding the wiring from the NSS up on top of the transmission was NOT plastic, it was metal of some kind. I found an ever so thin opening in the ring up against the transmission with my fingernail and it made that springy "bloing" noise that stiff wire will...

Greg, I wasn't intent on replacing the NSS unless I found a problem with it. I was thinking I would take it off and inspect it and maybe clean it up first to rule that out as a possibility since I wasn't getting anywhere with the starter. I can't see that tie ring at all from the top or...

Greg and Drew, thanks for the replies. A few questions: 1) Would the coolant/oil leak cause the starter to not work for a month or two and then work for basically 9 months before crapping out again? That just seems odd. Is it a drying out process? And does the timing (calendar, not engine)...

I have another thread on an intermittent failure to crank problem. So after looking at nearly everything else, I decided to take the NSS off and examine/clean/replace it. So I disconnected the harness and got the NSS loose from the transmission. So as I am pulling the NSS and the wires down...