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I don't think I read them all either as I may have been in a drunkin stupor when I wrote some of them.No wasted ink! I have enjoyed all your writings! I just have not read them all yet.
Thank you, Sir. That is a very nice thing to say to a bald headed Geezer.The world needs more men like you good sir
Are you sure the valves got hit? It is a interference engine but there's always the chance the valves closed before piston can hit them. A boroscope, with side camera, down the spark plug hole will show it. Or you can re-time the engine and see if you have compression(before jumping straight to pulling the cylinder head) either way the timing cover needs to come off...Paul going through a problem my self with my jeep iin February my jeep’s timing belt snapped so i said I will get you a second hand head and. Valves complete he said no no I will only fit a new engine i said ok leave it with me so I bought a second hand engine and gearbox still connected so I arranged for it too be delivered to his work shop he says straight away ii won’t have time to do it for 2 weeks. Now I went up last week so we are talking 3 months he has had it and he says he has not even looked at it . My wife said keep calm and all
I. want to do is pull him over the the counter. Now he says he doesn’t really have time to do it because there’s time been set aside for it . So looks like I am going to take the head off the good engine and put it on the old engine that is still in place so I don’t have to remove the engine. So like you say @Paul B better doing it myself. Timing belt might be tricky but I will read up on it .
Yep at the moment they’re is no compressionAre you sure the valves got hit? It is an interference engine but there's always the chance the valves closed before piston can hit them. A boroscope, with side camera, down the spark plug hole will show it. Or you can re-time the engine and see if you have compression(before jumping straight to pulling the cylinder head) either way the timing cover needs to come off...
They already re timed it? Once the timing belt or chain breaks, you lose compression because the valves are not moving. They would have had to put a new belt on to possibly have compression again, or use a camera to look inside the combustion chamber to see the valve is bent. Most places see a interference engine with a broken belt or chain and assume the valves bent. Must of the time they are, but it's not uncommon for them to be ok. Worth double checking if you don't trust themYep at the moment they’re is no compression
Sorry mate but that's what you get when you buy a Jeep. Here in Australia Jeep is the vehicle with most call outs for Roadside assist.I found the rattle in my Jeep. A few months ago it was recalled for the catalytic converter. To remove that they had to do it from underneath and Jeeps have a rock guard that protects the oil pan. It has about 7 bolts holding it on and is a heavy piece of steel about 2' wide.
The Jiboni's in Jeep left off at least 4 bolts and broke one in the hole so it has to be drilled out.
They are a weird metric size almost a 7/16th SAE bolt but not quite. I have a lot of Metric bolts but not that one and being it's Memorial Day, Jeep isn't open.
Tomorrow I will go back to Jeep to get some of those bolts. I don't want them to "fix" it because I don't trust them.
If they give me a hard time and want me to leave the vehicle with them, I will just go to a hardware store and buy the stupid bolts. This is a pain to fix because besides leaving off 4 bolts, the thing is on slightly crooked so some of the holes don't line up so I have to loosten all the bolts and drill out the broken one and use an "easy out" on it. I am to old for this nonsense but broke one of my rules by letting them work on my car.
The thing was recalled so it was free but nothing in life is free and if you want something done correctly, you need to do it yourself.