mmc757
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05 3.7l, 200k+, 18 year old girls vehicle
The Jeep is burning about a quart of oil every 1000 miles right now, and she drives a LOT of miles.
If it were my vehicle, I wouldnt be too worried about it, but I am in the Navy and currently spend a good deal of time away from home so I am really worried that she is going to run it dry and blow up her engine while I'm away.
As hard as I try, I cant get her to check her oil regularly, or even just add oil periodically.
I know, I know, somebody is going to say let her blow it up to teach her a lesson but it would be a huge problem for us if that happened, and would be a far bigger punishment for me than for her so thats not an option.
So the question is, is it practical for me to rebuild this engine? I can take a couple days off and take it out of service if I need to. I dont have a garage but I have an auto hobby shop on the base that I can use if I need to. The only problem with that is that I cant leave it overnight so anything I do there has to be done in one day.
I can use my own driveway, but its parallel along the road so it *****.
Money is always tight, so taking it to someone else to do the work is not an option. I'm a good mechanic so unless theres something unique that I dont know about, I'm not worried about skill level.
Anyone have any idea what the cost and time to re-ring one of these things might be?
The Jeep is burning about a quart of oil every 1000 miles right now, and she drives a LOT of miles.
If it were my vehicle, I wouldnt be too worried about it, but I am in the Navy and currently spend a good deal of time away from home so I am really worried that she is going to run it dry and blow up her engine while I'm away.
As hard as I try, I cant get her to check her oil regularly, or even just add oil periodically.
I know, I know, somebody is going to say let her blow it up to teach her a lesson but it would be a huge problem for us if that happened, and would be a far bigger punishment for me than for her so thats not an option.
So the question is, is it practical for me to rebuild this engine? I can take a couple days off and take it out of service if I need to. I dont have a garage but I have an auto hobby shop on the base that I can use if I need to. The only problem with that is that I cant leave it overnight so anything I do there has to be done in one day.
I can use my own driveway, but its parallel along the road so it *****.
Money is always tight, so taking it to someone else to do the work is not an option. I'm a good mechanic so unless theres something unique that I dont know about, I'm not worried about skill level.
Anyone have any idea what the cost and time to re-ring one of these things might be?