Geonovast

I guess the old wife was ok with it... $8500? :nuts:

Could be a driveshaft U-joint on it's way out.

While it's running, pull the oil fill cap out and watch the rocker moving. If the sound seems to be happening once every time the rocker moves, it's a valvetrain knock. If it seems to be happening twice as fast, it'll probably be coming from the bottom end.

Oh, and I'll take your snow if you don't want it. This'll be my first winter away from WI and I think I'm gonna go through withdrawal down here in the depths of Missouri.

Yes you have a CPS. Bonus of the 2.5 is you don't have to crawl on the ground to change it. Symptoms are usually a no-start, or randomly dying while driving. It's the same part for a 4.0.

Do you specify motor when you buy your left kits? A 6.5" coil will lift a 2.5 more than a 4.0.

I don't get it. What's a trunk?

Then why do we have so many? :rotfl2:

My next question would be... did it knock before he changed the bearings?

:dunno: Temporary insanity?

Once I get all my Jeep parts and crap down here, you and I are having a "class" :clapping:

... he DID put the oil pump back on, right?

You can do the rod bearings from under the truck, and they're going to be much easier than the mains. Gonna be a lot more work if you have a bad wrist pin though.

Generally a knocking sound would be coming from a bad rod bearing or wrist pin. Usually it's a good idea to replace the rod bearings with the mains.

:banana:

:drool:

http://www.wheelsandcaps.com/images/886/ALY09038U.jpg + =

I'm sure some of use would take one or two MJs off your hands... you probably wouldn't notice. :D

I don't understand the logic behind destroying a perfectly good vehicle that "supposedly" got 19 mpg when it probably actually got more, to get higher payments on a vehicle more expensive to maintain that got 21 mpg. I really, really don't get that.

Probably because a good portion of people don't know squat about these things and jack up the prices accordingly.

I don't think it was that they used a different tranny, but more that they didn't make a lot of 2.5 XJs with an auto. Off the top of my head, I remember seeing one. All over 2.5 XJs I'd ever seen were 4 or 5 speeds.

First time I changed my pump, I did it with the tank in the truck, and the O-ring didn't seal right, so it leaked if I filled it up past 3/4. Even if you don't buy a new tank, I recommend dropping it to change the pump.

:nuts:

Too bad the Comanche ones weren't offered in 2wd :(

You don't have any sitting around for him Pete? :rotf: