Hi All,
First post. I have a 2016 3.6L manual shift 6 speed Rubicon, that I got a few months ago. It is a long story, but I picked it up for almost-nothing, but it was dead, with an unknown driving history.
The body is in great shape, no rust, etc. Has 127k miles. Had the following taken care of over the past 3 months:
1. New timing chain kit, water pump- previous one apparently was thrown.
2. Brakes.
3. Driver's side cat converter-was coding
4. Evap leak - was coding
5. oil pressure gauge switch-coding
After this work, the jeep drove very well, EXCEPT it would go into limp mode on occasion, always after having it over 3,200rpms, then the check engine light would come on (sometimes, sometimes it would just limp without the light coming on). I could pull over, turn the engine off for a few seconds, turn it back on and it would drive fine. IF the light had gone on, it would go off after a bit of driving.
It was also doing the jeep lifter tick, tick, tick. I had the lifters/rockers surgery done. After that surgery, there was a new knocking sound. I drive the Jeep about 3 miles, and then the knocking got worse, so I drove it back to the shop that did the work, and this is what it sounded and looked like (see video).
The shop has no idea what the new noise is, and even though it was not making this noise before they did the lifters and rockers, they are denying that they did anything wrong. The mechanic who did the lifters did need to pull off the front timing cover because he apparently had trouble getting one of the tensioners removed, it then broke, and then he had to replace the tensioner with a new one. He blamed it on the (different) mechanic who did the initial timing chain kit replacement.
Any thoughts on what the new noise might be and where to go from here?
Both mechanics who were inside the engine said that it looked surprisingly clean and did not see any obvious signs of major damage...
Thanks!!
J
First post. I have a 2016 3.6L manual shift 6 speed Rubicon, that I got a few months ago. It is a long story, but I picked it up for almost-nothing, but it was dead, with an unknown driving history.
The body is in great shape, no rust, etc. Has 127k miles. Had the following taken care of over the past 3 months:
1. New timing chain kit, water pump- previous one apparently was thrown.
2. Brakes.
3. Driver's side cat converter-was coding
4. Evap leak - was coding
5. oil pressure gauge switch-coding
After this work, the jeep drove very well, EXCEPT it would go into limp mode on occasion, always after having it over 3,200rpms, then the check engine light would come on (sometimes, sometimes it would just limp without the light coming on). I could pull over, turn the engine off for a few seconds, turn it back on and it would drive fine. IF the light had gone on, it would go off after a bit of driving.
It was also doing the jeep lifter tick, tick, tick. I had the lifters/rockers surgery done. After that surgery, there was a new knocking sound. I drive the Jeep about 3 miles, and then the knocking got worse, so I drove it back to the shop that did the work, and this is what it sounded and looked like (see video).
The shop has no idea what the new noise is, and even though it was not making this noise before they did the lifters and rockers, they are denying that they did anything wrong. The mechanic who did the lifters did need to pull off the front timing cover because he apparently had trouble getting one of the tensioners removed, it then broke, and then he had to replace the tensioner with a new one. He blamed it on the (different) mechanic who did the initial timing chain kit replacement.
Any thoughts on what the new noise might be and where to go from here?
Both mechanics who were inside the engine said that it looked surprisingly clean and did not see any obvious signs of major damage...
Thanks!!
J