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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton
I'm a bit jaded by the Grand Cherokee crowd that wants to run me off the highway at every opportunity.
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You ain't the only one my friend.
Grand Cherokee? Ultimate poseur vehicle. $40K plus, leather seats and every other known high end convenience - and you seriously want me to believe that someone is going to drop enough money to buy a new MB, on a POS Chrysler vehicle, and then take it off-road? Yeah, right.....
But what REALLY makes my blood boil are some of the morons that bought one of the Liberty CRD's - and know absolutely nothing about diesels - and have since tried just about every way imaginable to destroy what, IMHO, is one of the best damn small diesel engines ever sold in this country.
Here's an example - one particular tuning outfit that goes by the initials GDE (who popped up 3 years ago just as Chrysler went bankrupt , and ONLY offer tunes for Jeep Liberty CRD's....gee, wonder where THOSE guys used to work
), offered up the utterly nonsensical advice that, to get better fuel mileage, it was perfectly OK to
completely remove the viscous clutch and mechanical fan from the vehicle.
We're talking an inline four cylinder 2.8 L diesel with an
ALUMINUM HEAD, variable vane turbo, with even a mild aftermarket tune can kick out 185 HP and 330 ft lbs at the rear wheels, egr cooler, intercooler, and air-cooled tranny oil cooler.
Guess what?
SOME OF THOSE EFFIN MORONS ON THE JEEP FORUMS ACTUALLY LISTENED TO THOSE IDIOTS AND REMOVED THEIR COOLING FANS!!!!!
You know what the result was. Coolant leaks, blown head gaskets, leaking injector seals, warped heads.
And what did said tuning company and their idiotic fanboy followers have to say about the resulting carnage? Twasn't their fault for removing their cooling fans - oh no, the REAL problem in their opinion was that the engine manufacturer (VM Motori) had installed an inadequate water pump with insufficient cooling flow.......
It's almost enough to make me an advocate for forced sterilization, to keep morons like this from reproducing.