Joined: Oct 2018

Posts: 7

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From: South Carolina

Year: 1998

Model: Grand Cherokee (ZJ)

Engine: 6 cylinder?

Hi all,
I’m praying someone can give me some advice, I’ll try not to ramble...

I bought this Jeep for $700 and I knew I could expect some issues. It’s just for my son to get to high school maybe 6 miles from our home.

After a couple of days, it started cutting off randomly while going down the road. A small garage put new O2 sensors on and it stopped cutting off. Only now, there’s a loud clicking, bad fume smells? Exhaust? Idk. While driving highway speeds, it’s smooth but once I’ve driven around at these speeds, and I come to a stop sign - while I have my foot on the brake, it starts reving up and jerking and then when I press the gas, the rpms move to like maybe 2 but it doesn’t move and there’s loud banging and then all of a sudden it lunges forward forcefully.

When It’s been parked a while and you get to a stop sign, it doesn’t act like that. It’s only after driving a little while and I stop or slow my speed considerably. I’ve been afraid for him to drive it so he’s driving my car and I’m driving the Jeep everyday to work.

I’ve been told it’s the “lifters” on the engine and also it’s the header or something.