First off, Love the Forum! More than enough information in here that just makes the mind spin leaning and dreaming of what I want to do next.

Background on the XJ:

2001 Jeep Cherokee Limited
Silver all around, even bumper corners
142k when purchased
Little bit of rust on the rockers and drivers floor around the drain is rusted to a point where I could almost put a finger through it.
Suspension is pretty soft and worn and tires are mixed match and balding in the rear.

Got it home and found a decent oil leak. Replaced Valve cover gasket and then had to take it in to replace the oil filter adaptor gasket. It needed a little heat to get moving. So far oil leak has subsided. I purchased the rear main seal and new oil pan gasket but the oil has stopped. Probably could replace those just to say they have been replaced. I do plan on doing a rebuild next summer. Motor has a knock to it.

In the brown truck some where is a RE 3.5 Super Flex with leaf pack, track bar and mono shocks. New shoes are the Moab 16x8 wrapping in 32" Mickey MTZ's. This will be a DD and I know most will disagree with the 32's and keeping stock gearing. The area where I is pretty flat and I dont plan on rock climbing anywhere but light to medium trail use when I feel like seeing the back country. I am prepared with the thought of going to 4.56's. Quadratec was very pleasant to work with. Calling has its perks FYI....

I will post pictures of it tonight once i get home from work.

 

Welcome. Was there a question in there somewhere..?

 

Sooo...what's the problem? Lol and Welcome to CF!

 

That's the problem. Just bought it & it already has a knock & he plans on waiting nearly a year to rebuild it.


My "tapping" lasted 4 days till I threw a rod thru the side of the block. Good luck waiting a year.

I hope you park it until you diagnose the knock. I thought mine was a lifter or valve. It was a very faint tapping.


Oh, yeah,...... welcome to CF.

 

Welcome to the board that's for sure if something else comes up post when they do.

 

if it were me and you dont have a leak dont fix it... why create a bigger headache then its worth

 

Hey guys sorry for the weird first post!

It was basically a headache from reading all the information on here. I didn't add the picture like i had promised.

Here is a pic from the craigslist add. One of the better looking cherokees in the area.

 

It's all good.

 

Auto trans?

Read this:

https://www.cherokeeforum.com/f51/ho...ocking-125547/

 

Good lookin xj man. The 32s will look awesome, but your power and mpg will suffer a bit.

Some advice for the potential rebuild: look into swapping a different head onto the block. The 00-01 have 0331 heads which are prone to cracking. Also, build a stroker, because jeep.