Huge lifter problem
12-27-2010, 09:20 PM
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Year: 1996
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0
Huge lifter problem
ever since i got my xj it has always had a lifter noise only lely its got louer so yesterday i took the truck out after it sat for 2 days i started it and it was very very loud i started driving made it about ten miles or so and it shut off and now wont start just clickes it act as if motor is siezed but i don think it is think liters collapsed any one else had an issue like this?
12-28-2010, 10:10 AM
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Year: 1997
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I would put a breaker bar on the balancer bolt and see if it spins by hand. Collapsed lifters won't prevent it from cranking, it might have dropped a valve into the cylinder. Unless the noise you heard was a main or rod bearing, and it finally seized.
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