Hi Gang. Hope everyone had a good Christmas. I was wondering if you could give me some guidence in deciding the best course of action to take on my 99 XJ with the 4.0 (120K miles). The service work required will need to be done by a shop.
(1) Work needed now: Replace front main seal, New timing chain and gears, New water pump, New oil pump, New valve cover gasket. For those items, parts and labor will be a little south of roughly $1K.
(2) The rear main seal has a small leak will ultimately have to be replaced. I haven't gotten an estimate on that yet, but I'm certain it won't be cheap to get reparied.
(3) Now a very recent problem that just occured yesterday: I started the Jeep (Was parked several hours in the garage and cold), and for a brief few seconds after the start she studdered and blew some coolant out the overflow bottle. Help me out here if I'm on the wrong track, but I suspect a head gasket problem. (There was no coolant mixed in with the oil.) A slight loss in compression might also explain why the engine has not be idling very smoothly.
Ok, so heres the question: If I have to do all of this stuff, am I better off from a $$$ standpoint just getting the engine competely rebuilt? If so, can someone tell what's involved with a complete rebuild and roughly how much does something like that cost?
BTW, this is an adopted Jeep I recently bought (rescued) and brought into a Jeep friendly home to live with our other two Jeeps - so she needs some TLC.
Thanks much
Marty
(1) Work needed now: Replace front main seal, New timing chain and gears, New water pump, New oil pump, New valve cover gasket. For those items, parts and labor will be a little south of roughly $1K.
(2) The rear main seal has a small leak will ultimately have to be replaced. I haven't gotten an estimate on that yet, but I'm certain it won't be cheap to get reparied.
(3) Now a very recent problem that just occured yesterday: I started the Jeep (Was parked several hours in the garage and cold), and for a brief few seconds after the start she studdered and blew some coolant out the overflow bottle. Help me out here if I'm on the wrong track, but I suspect a head gasket problem. (There was no coolant mixed in with the oil.) A slight loss in compression might also explain why the engine has not be idling very smoothly.
Ok, so heres the question: If I have to do all of this stuff, am I better off from a $$$ standpoint just getting the engine competely rebuilt? If so, can someone tell what's involved with a complete rebuild and roughly how much does something like that cost?
BTW, this is an adopted Jeep I recently bought (rescued) and brought into a Jeep friendly home to live with our other two Jeeps - so she needs some TLC.
Thanks much
Marty