Calling Jeepers: Need Help with first Purchase

[Firehaus]

Saw a thread on dieseltruckresource.com where the guy did a 4BT in a Wrangler and was getting about 30 on the freeway.

That would be my main motivation for doing it.


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[ZERO THEORY]

How much of an advantage would it be to have a diesel in a wrangler?

http://www.bruiserconversions.com/je...el-conversion/


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Turbo diesels get better fuel economy, put out exponentially more torque, can handle insane amounts of stress and abuse, and can be run for free with a weekend and a nominal startup investment.

[hurley842002]

Turbo diesels get better fuel economy, put out exponentially more torque, can handle insane amounts of stress and abuse, and can be run for free with a weekend and a nominal startup investment.

Yup, irritates the crap out of me that we can't get the diesel imports that most other countries get.

[Danimal]

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[rockhound]

the modern diesel engine is great until they start having issues, do a little google searching for fuel related issues in the 2003 and newer diesel motors, when you start chasing a truck that has fuel system issues that can run 10,000 dollars or more just in parts you will never want another diesel engine. I have been down that road and after having several good diesel vehicles in the family that ran forever, I will never own another one.

everyone i know that ever had a newer diesel truck that is running the high pressure fuel systems 23K psi, are starting to have issues with them at the 175K mark, even reman injectors for a newer cummins run $2500 for parts and that is doing the install yourself. new injectors are $7700 installed at the dealer.

i can replace my entire 8.1 liter motor with a factory built crate engine for 1/2 the cost of the dealer cost to replace injectors on my 2005 cummins

[electronman1729]

Well kind of found a jeep i like, looks nice but has over 175,000 miles on it? It is a 1997 wrangler. Should i be concerned about the mileage? How well are the engines built?

[BPTactical]

Well kind of found a jeep i like, looks nice but has over 175,000 miles on it? It is a 1997 wrangler. Should i be concerned about the mileage? How well are the engines built?

The 64$ question.
It depends.
175k of well taken care of or 175k of not so well taken care of?

[hurley842002]

Well kind of found a jeep i like, looks nice but has over 175,000 miles on it? It is a 1997 wrangler. Should i be concerned about the mileage? How well are the engines built?

I've seen not well taken care of 4.0's go 290k+, they are literally built like tanks. With that said, I'd still want something that was taken care of.

[condoor]

Well kind of found a jeep i like, looks nice but has over 175,000 miles on it? It is a 1997 wrangler. Should i be concerned about the mileage? How well are the engines built?

So did you buy it? I had a 97 TJ - great rig and motor. Notorious for cracked exhaust manifold and rear main seal leaks, but otherwise very solid vehicles IMO.

[Danimal]

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