fyi if yer jeep won't start

bowgus · 2004-01-14T15:16:11+00:00

-30 C or so here to-day, out of the house at 5:30 to head out ... rrrr ...sputter sputter ... rrrr. Won't fire up ... battery's getting low ... go getthe charger, set it to 60 amps ... wait, try again. Oh yeah '96 Cherokee,4.0 litre HO, auto tranmission. So I remembered someone posting that you canfloor it ... so I did ... and she fired up !!! I could not believe it ...free advice ... and it worked ... but the jeep would not hold an idle andthe check engine light was on ... so I sat there for a while warming it up.Then let it die while I packed up for work. She started ok but still no idleand check engine still on. Made my way to work doing the left foot brake,slide into neutral, keep it running at the stops thing. Stalled once,started again, check engine light not on ... ok, getting better ... butstill no solid idle. Went in to work, checked the email, hada coffee, loadedup the laptop, said those yahoo I'm outta here "I'll be working at home"words, don't wanna get stuck here to-night. Went out, started the jeep up,and all is normal.So what I'm saying is, before you call for a tow, consider the above. And bythe way, what is that floor it technique doing ... bypassing/overridingsomething.Thanks fer listening.