What did you do to your jeep today?

[CheddarGau]

Last november I purchased a jeep Liberety 2005 to use to go up to the snow removal company. need a 4wd to get there is a storm We started ( my son and I ) and it ran no codes ( removing the battery erases the codes ) that is what he did. it was stored ( of road no tags ) the owner said, so we could not do a dirive run. The body is abit ruff, but what we did not notice is that both rocker pannels were rusted out ( no rocker left ) the plastic trim was heald in place with expanding insulating foam.
So I put close to 2k in part of all kinds, full brake job all 4 wheels including the back plates ( rusted through, unable to install the parking brake shoes ), engine oil pan, transmission oil pan and filter very rusty, etc.. Was scared that the pans were rusted through ( the jeep had mud and rust caked under everywhere! Changed all lifters.
Now I have a question, after changing all the lifters, I still have quite a loud clicking sound like if the valves need ajusting. I read I think somewhere here that you can buy springs to stop the noise. I figured that maybe cheap oil was used and that maybe there was slug blocking the oil passages to the lifters so I put some SeaFoam in the oil. Still have the problem, is anyone able to tell me if the noise can be fixed?
Thanks

Valves are not adjustable on these. So easiest way to verify sludge is to remove a cylinder head cover and do a physical check. They aren't difficult on these engines. Also what oil was put in when the oil was changed?

Sludge can be a tricky beast. If a lot is found you can approach it two or three ways. Do nothing and change the oil often (sometimes the best option), #2 change oil, with 1L of ATF and take a blast on the highway 20 mins and drain oil, and repeat a few times and hope for the best. Lastly you can pull everything, manually clean it out the best you can. They key with sludge is to not use anything too aggressive. What can happen is it will make it into your oil pan and the oil pick up with catch it and become clogged.

One last option (in conjunction with all of them) is to punch big holes in the oil pick up, to allow the sludge pass through and hope that the oil pump will crush it all up, which it usually will. It's better than oil starvation.

All options aren't great, but you do need to verify what the issue is before starting anything. An oil sample may be a good option to check for bearing material in the oil.

 

[lfhoward]

The tapping sound could be slack in the timing chain guides also. It makes a sound almost like a bad lifter & rocker arm. I saw this first hand when I visited the machine shop and went over my partly disassembled engine with the machinist who was rebuilding my cylinder heads and putting in new timing components. What precipitated this was a partially dropped valve seat and a stuck valve, resulting in zero compression in one cylinder. Some other valve seats were looking like they were thinking of failing soon, so I had it rebuilt. Had 220k on the Jeep at the time.

 

[KJowner]

Did you fix the rust properly with new steel welded in? If not you are wasting money better spent on something solid.
major rust in the rockers is bad news structurally on these and needs sorting out.

 

[KingKJ]

Where was your vacuum leak?

there's a T on the passenger side where the vacuum line goes to the airbox and it splits and the line goes somewhere to the back of the block, the old plastic was old and just snapped while I was driving