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[ima9er]

what's up everybody, my wife just bought a 2005 jeep liberty crd. i've been doing a lot of searching on websites and forums. and reading other peoples problems and fixes. so i finally decided to join this group. I can never keep a vehicle stock. so as long as the wife allows it, it'll be upgraded. like i said before it's the wife's jeep for a year, then once she's done with it, it'll be all mine and then the real customization will come into affect..

 

[LibertyTC]

Welcome to the forums!
Yes I understand customization bug. Shortly after I bought mine it was tires, skids, lift etc etc.
What color is your CRD?

 

[turblediesel]

Welcome!

First worry on a CRD is the timing belt. How many miles and years has it been in there?

Have your wife give it a good warmup and a couple minutes idle time at destination. That'll keep the head from cracking and the turbo lubed.

LOSTJeeps has the most info on your engine.

Rotella T 5w40.

Just Empty Every Pocket

 

[ima9er]

It's the green color, darker green color.
And I'm honestly not sure how long the timing belt has been, we bought it from a small used dealership for 3k. And it has 160xxx miles. I have a 1 ton mega cab dodge diesel that I only use rotella in her.

 

[turblediesel]

Maybe carfax knows when the belt was done. When in doubt, do the belt. And the water pump, they don't last two belts.

ID Parts has a belt kit, special tools, etc.

Look for a blue electrical connector on the fuel filter housing. If it isn't blue you might want to upgrade to the gen2 metal filter housing.

Other stuff:

Provent air/oil seperator
ARP head studs
GDE tune
New rocker/lifters
Sasquatch Weeks kit
TURBO DIESEL FREAK's thermo$tat hou$ing
In tank lift pump

and more...

Yours might be the same color as mine, deep beryl green.

 

[ima9er]

Maybe carfax knows when the belt was done. When in doubt, do the belt. And the water pump, they don't last two belts.

ID Parts has a belt kit, special tools, etc.

Look for a blue electrical connector on the fuel filter housing. If it isn't blue you might want to upgrade to the gen2 metal filter housing.

Other stuff:

Provent air/oil seperator
ARP head studs
GDE tune
New rocker/lifters
Sasquatch Weeks kit
TURBO DIESEL FREAK's thermo$tat hou$ing
In tank lift pump

and more...

Yours might be the same color as mine, deep beryl green.

Thank you this is awesome info.. I was definitely looking into the gde tune, I want to get an egr delete kit, but no one makes a good one anymore.