Well, all joking aside from my previous venture here, I finally found a donor for the rolled '02 Renegade my brother had.
Maybe some of you remember awhile back when I posted a "what to do with this" thread about my brother's rolled (totalled) 2002 Liberty Renegade on 3" or so lift and 32" Hankook MT's.
http://s248.beta.pho...912394281319418
Well, the time has come. We've sat on it for quite some time, and finally found a new body with a bad motor.
Bring on the 2002 Limited Liberty Renegade
This Luxurious model features power windows, locks, power defrost mirrors, defrosted rear window with wiper, cruise, a/c, premium surround, heated seats, leather, sunroof, and Renegade light bar.
For the "Rugged" types among you, it also features a 3" OME/Skyjacker lift combo, 32x11.50R16 Hankook MT's, 4.11 gears all around.
Lol.
So, I've started tearing into it for Steve (my brother). After some tinkering, with the original intent of just swapping the motor and selling it, I decided that dropping the engine/trans/k-member/front suspension was the easiest way to do this project. So, I stripped out the front clip, cooling and a/c system, disconnected the entire engine side engine bay harness from the engine bay itself, layed it over the motor, and moved on to popping the upper ball joints off in order to hang the calipers up and out of my way.
After this, I proceeded to unbolt the trans crossmember, which was a chore in and of itself....this is a horrible design. Extra long bolts going through the crossmember through sleeves that like to hold water, promoting rust. Only broke one bolt.
After that, I came here to type all of this up, and post links to all the pics. More tomorrow following the second post.
Valve seat on the exhaust valve fell out, hung up the valve, causing the cam to smash the rocker in a funny way after loss of contact on the roller, and break the casting around the lifter
Maybe some of you remember awhile back when I posted a "what to do with this" thread about my brother's rolled (totalled) 2002 Liberty Renegade on 3" or so lift and 32" Hankook MT's.
http://s248.beta.pho...912394281319418
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Well, the time has come. We've sat on it for quite some time, and finally found a new body with a bad motor.
Bring on the 2002 Limited Liberty Renegade
This Luxurious model features power windows, locks, power defrost mirrors, defrosted rear window with wiper, cruise, a/c, premium surround, heated seats, leather, sunroof, and Renegade light bar.
For the "Rugged" types among you, it also features a 3" OME/Skyjacker lift combo, 32x11.50R16 Hankook MT's, 4.11 gears all around.
Lol.
So, I've started tearing into it for Steve (my brother). After some tinkering, with the original intent of just swapping the motor and selling it, I decided that dropping the engine/trans/k-member/front suspension was the easiest way to do this project. So, I stripped out the front clip, cooling and a/c system, disconnected the entire engine side engine bay harness from the engine bay itself, layed it over the motor, and moved on to popping the upper ball joints off in order to hang the calipers up and out of my way.
After this, I proceeded to unbolt the trans crossmember, which was a chore in and of itself....this is a horrible design. Extra long bolts going through the crossmember through sleeves that like to hold water, promoting rust. Only broke one bolt.
After that, I came here to type all of this up, and post links to all the pics. More tomorrow following the second post.
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Valve seat on the exhaust valve fell out, hung up the valve, causing the cam to smash the rocker in a funny way after loss of contact on the roller, and break the casting around the lifter
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