Cherokee diesel????
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Cherokee diesel????
Someone school me on this cause I have never seen or heard of one these before and the price they're asking sounds ridiculous.
http://cnj.craigslist.org/cto/2940626456.html
http://cnj.craigslist.org/cto/2940626456.html
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Diesel engines were an option for exported XJ's. They are rare here, but I don't think $10k would be worth it in my opinion.
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Originally Posted by ZaKingHunter
Diesel engines were an option for exported XJ's. They are rare here, but I don't think $10k would be worth it in my opinion.
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ive seen cummins 4bt swaps in wranglers and cherokees. personally it's dumb. idk if this is a swap job or an import cherokee. but either way ill keep my 10k for some other time
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The export Jeeps had the Venture Motori 2.5 TD. This is a factory option in north america. It's a Renault 2.1 turbodiesel. Rare option from 85-87. They had **** for horsepower/torque and parts are hard to find/expensive. Also the firewall was slightly different in these models and supposedly you cannot swap in a 4.0 if you felt like it. Only good thing would be the gas mileage, and probably not even that good lol.
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He'll never sell that for 10k. I want a diesel Cherokee bad. But you would be stuck like chuck when something on the engine goes bad. As said before parts are scarce and rare.
If you wanted a diesel Cherokee you would be better off swapping one in. Like a VW 1.6 or Cummins 4bt or the one I've looked into a Mercedes OM617.
If you wanted a diesel Cherokee you would be better off swapping one in. Like a VW 1.6 or Cummins 4bt or the one I've looked into a Mercedes OM617.
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Originally Posted by crbnfibr
diesel, when i see ur avatar in my peripheral, it always looks like che gravera
It does kinda look like it. I had to open CF in the browser because I forgot what it was. Yea that was some pork cutlets I was frying up. Mmmmm....
Anyways, you would be insane to put a 6bt in am XJ. A 4bt is heavy enough iirc about 700lbs and a 6bt is about 1000 lbs. Plus a 6bt is longer and a lil bit taller.
I looked at a 4bt swap and since the 4bt is a somewhat desireable, people aren't letting go of them for cheap. The Mercedes Benz OM617 is a 5cyl 3.0L Turbo diesel with no electronics. You can get them in 85-87 Mercedes cars and wagons. I found a couple on craigslist one was a scam of some sort. The other needed a starter and he wouldn't come down on the price so I wasn't going to buy with out hearing it crank. As soon as I find a good donor. I'm making a diesel xj.
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I wasn't looking at buying this. No way. I could build up my 99 xj for less then that. But every now and then I go and see what's on Craigslist and this caught my curiosity.
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Originally Posted by peter93xj
I wasn't looking at buying this. No way. I could build up my 99 xj for less then that. But every now and then I go and see what's on Craigslist and this caught my curiosity.
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There was a nice looking one around here for a long time for under 1k it even made it's way onto ebay. It was in need of an engine rebuild but for 9k you could easily do that
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