Actually it rejected the oil pump once.. aluminum pump, nodular iron block.
Tossed in a high-volume one because it was cast iron, and it keeps 70psi at
cold idle, but sounds like crap (as in a knocking/rapping/tapping).... It also
had the harmonic balancer come unwound, the new one required removal of an oil
slinger, so it got a timing chain for free then. Its a 91 laredo, so it has the
HO engine without the renix engine management. (yay)... it has the bendix abs-9
that should have been subject to a free UPGRADE to standard power brakes! The
rear drum brakes STILL suck @$$. Jeep -> Just Eats Every Penny ... not far off
with tthe current crop of stuff. If i had time, money, space and inclination,
I'd pull the engine and bore/stroke it and then put a 4" lift or so on it...
along with other upgrades. For all the fuss and trouble, its probably more
worth it to 1) buy an old farm 2) get a classic 'mog.
BTW the name fit, thats why it got it ;)
-j.
--
John Reames
1985 300d (223K "Gerta")
1991 Cherokee (149K "the fishbowl")
1999 E300Dt (141K "Hans")
1999 E300Dt (106K "Frantz")
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From: "Mike Canfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> That 4.0 will sound like the timing chain is gonna sling out of it for
> another 100K miles....;>)...Fishbowl....I like it....That's funny. I had an
> 89 Laredo that kept destroying computers until I realized the windshield was
> leaking water right into it..........Try as I might I couldn't fix that
> leak.....Not sure where it really was coming from. I traded that Heep for
> my first Samurai. Good trade.
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My beloved's 1980 300CD has a glove compartment lid mechanism which
keeps jamming and getting stuck due to the molded plastic inner shell of
the lid being busted up. Does anybody know a good source for these?
Doesn't seem to be a happenin' thing on either EBay or on Rusty's site.
Lee
