Seems my clockspring has gone south. My cruise stopped working. My cute little air-bag light has lit up my dash, and then my horn stopped working.. So I have all three signals the clockspring isn't with us anymore.
Found a new MOPAR one on the eBay for $160 delivered.. So I went for it.
Seems like a fairly easy task from looking and thinking of it. My only question might be what size bolt it will take to attach the puller to the wheel? I do have an assortment, but that is here at the shop and the damn TJ is 300 miles away. So I guess I'll take a few of these and a few of those. A nightmare would be if the threads aren't SAE! I don't have MM puller bolts.
While I'm at it I'll pull the dash bezel and pull the lighter which has found it's way into the void behind the dash.
I had to purchase two aftermarket lighters to get two brackets which I will form into two WASHERS here at the shop. Then I will superglue one on each side of the now enlarged hole in the dash and install the lighter back in place.
I did install both the aftermarket fan clutch and a genuine MOPAR thermostat last week.. The damn thing still ran a bit too hot. I observed quite a lot of grass seed tops in the A/C condensor so I put a vacuume on it and the thing seemed to do well after that.. However the temp was 15* cooler that day also. So we will see!
Big Jim <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

If memory serves me correctly, the bolts are 3/8" USS thread, 3" long should work with most pullers.

On the lighter, I was thinking you had a YJ, some TJ and other later model Jeeps lighters have little tangs that snap out once the lighter is inserted from the front, that retain it in a metal sleeve that goes in first.

After looking at lighters that are for sale on eBay I find my lighter to have a plastic sleeve that fits the hole in the dash.
THAT plastic sleeve is what gave way! I was thinking the hole in the dash gave way and got larger. But that thinking seems to be incorrect. The original hole itself is larger than a replacement lighter will fit. So I ordered another stock lighter that has the plastic sleeve already on it.
I have discarded the idea of installing washers and an aftermarket lighter. INSTEAD I ordered a 20 amp toggle switch to fit into the blank space next to the fog light switch. I intend to wire that switch to an aftermarket lighter to place on the bottom of the dash. I will use THIS lighter for the purpose I was using the original one. The new original lighter shall sit there and grin and not be used much if any ever again.
Big JIm <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

Why your TJ 300 miles away? Maybe that's not a lot of distance in Texas - For me that's like abandoning my child!

Well it's like this!
The Jeep is in the thorns all the while I am on the ranch. Trying to drive it back here and then out there again next week is taking a chance of loseing a tire on the hiway..
ALSO it's a lot more comfortable driving my Z-71 at 85mph back and forth. Plus the 1/2 ton allows me to carry this and that to the ranch. Tomorrow I'll have a ladder for instance.
Not to mention I havn't put the thing into my name and it is totally without insurance and license.. Saved a bit of money there..
Big JIm <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

The clock spring was a piece of cake! Put the battery cable back on and everything went back to work.
While driving around the ranch I honked the horn every few miles just out of joy!!
$160. and an hours time and now the Jeep is back to as-new again.
Big Jim <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />