Add me to the list of broken skirts.

[JeepXJFan]

Shop found the remnants of #6 pistons skirt in my oil pan. Sounded like a tapping lifter at first that would come and go. One morning I started it up and it sounded terrible, kind of like a hammer hitting the back of the block. All this with only 115k on the odometer.

Since I have too much into jeep itself I opted to go with an ATK stroker long block. Should be up and running this week. I'll post what I think of it after I have it for a while.

http://high-performance-engines.com...?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=ATK&Product_Code=HP24

 

[Milford Cubicle II]

You're entitled to spend your money how you want, and it's probably already too late anyways, but unless there's damage to the cylinder wall and you don't want to re-sleeve, you can easily buy a new piston for $30 bucks and be up and running again. Or, take the opportunity just to stroke it yourself or at least just do a 4.0 rebuild.

My number 5 or 6 (can't remember) skirt did the same thing. I put in a new long block because frankly, I didn't know any better. I kick myself almost daily for not taking the opportunity to rebuild it as a stroker. It couldn't been done for way cheaper than what my replacement long block cost :doh:

 

[kastein]

I probably would have gone with a junkyard stocker for like $100-200, but hey, it could be worse, you could have bought a Titan turd. IIRC ATKs are pretty well respected builds.

(never, ever buy a motor from Titan)

 

[JeepXJFan]

Junkyard 4.0's are going between 650-1k out here. It would probably be high mileage and I don't want this to happen again. My motor spit the bottom half of the piston out, both sets of rings and a full sandwich bag full of piston. I would have had to do a full rebuild which would have taken a lot of time which is one thing that I don't have.

So far the ATK motor is in and doing fine. Also asked the shop to put it back together with the following. Gibson header that I wrapped, a 63mm throttle body and a ported horseshoe intake manifold. Ran lean at first the 803 neon injectors weren't enough. I swapped to 6 hole 24lb Ford Motorsports and all is well. Runs pretty healthy, not a race car by any means but has a ton of low end grunt. Just hope it lasts.

 

[Jeepguy03]

To those of you with broken skirts, what year was the engine and how many miles on it?

 

[JeepXJFan]

97XJ 115k

 

[Milford Cubicle II]

2000 and 175-ish-K I think :dunno: