09 May 10, 12:30 pm
Yeah it sucks. Roughly less than 20,000 miles on the motor. No sign. I heard a pop then a bad rattle, I thought it was the gears or something so I stopped. The sound continued with a puff of smoke so I shut it off and found all that. I was only turning about 1,000 rpm when it happened. It's a good thing I didn't sell the motor sitting in the other jeep here. I'll be buying some new bearing for it and probably a new oil pump. Going to borrow marty's cherry picker for while and start puling this motor within the next couple days then get the other one pulled and work on it. Then swap it in. i'll be posting up when it's happening.