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General Forums => The Mess Hall => Topic started by: chardrc on September 27, 2008, 06:38:36 PM
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I changed the oil on my brothers 97 grand Cherokee today and noticed it has a sound that my dad describes as being low on oil ( but it isn't) and sounds like what I've heard a timing chain that is stretched and loose. I was wondering how difficult / time consuming of a job it is to put a new timing chain. it is a 4.0L so there will be less room than if it was a 2.5l but other than that how doable is it. thanks for any help...
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Before you do anything check this, if it has a timing pointer set the dampner on it take the distributor cap of and rotate the engine back and fort to the point where the rotor moves barely either way read how many cranckshaft degrees it takes to do this, more than 10 degrees it needs a timing chain anything less you are still ok. This works for v8's cannot see why it would not be true for a straight 6, seems to me Jeep is the only one with timing chains for their line engines
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ok ill try that.. thanks for the tip