Recent content by The_Eric

I know it's not an apples to apples comparison, but I found this on a 2015 Wrangler. Btw this was taken in August last year but he kept driving it - I'm just now getting to put an engine in it. The thing that stopped him was timing chain death noises and low oil pressure 🤣

Are you having them replace all the followers or just the ones for 1,3,5?

I wonder how much of your experience with shocks/struts is influenced by your roads, climates, make/model of car and customer? IWO a conservative customer driving a premium vehicle on good roads in good weather conditions? I've seen plenty of dampers that were sacked by 100-150k. Rattles...

Gotcha, I was going off of my dealer price. If the OP elects to take it take a shop for the work to be done, it is unlikely that he'll pay any less than ~$500/cam

Not sure where you're getting that price? My cost as a shop is $390 - customer cost will generally be a fair bit higher.

Not always. I've had them be noticably down in power due to a plugged cat with no CEL

Well that sucks. What's the plan now?

Since it's RPM linked and only #5, do a relative compression test, maybe you've got a roller follower or cam lobe failing. I've got a Hemi at the shop now that does very similar things. Have also seen 3.6s do similar and have a bad cam lobe

Thank you for the insight. That's the problem with being a small one man band type shop that primarily works on older vehicles (believe it or not, a 2013 is on the newer side of what I work on) - I don't have the exposure or time to dig into these issues. I know that they exist but often the...

Do you have any insight on the cause? Metallurgy issues? Can I assume that they've got them pretty well sorted? I'm going to push for a Chrysler reman (who knows who does it for them) just because I feel like they'll have the least issues of the various companies out there.

Honestly I'm surprised it lasted this long - he's not the best at oil changes. He does construction, so he's driving every day.

Yeah I need to make it an arbitrary part of my diag routine. The majority of my misfire cases are pretty obviously ignition, but you're 100% right that it's just a good idea and quickly shows the mechanical heath of all cylinders relative to one another.

Here's a little more info on the Hemi - after the relative compression test and seeing that #5 had a higher current draw than the rest,I pulled the valve cover for inspection and found this - and it's because of this and the fact it's got 180k on it that it's going to get a remanned engine.

You're right, it's the crank sensor.

The Dark Side Of The Moon album, preferably under the influence of whatever takes you to your happy place.