Durango-Bob
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Greensburg, PA
My 5 speed, 4.0 L, two door '90 Cherokee came in contact with another vehicle and now has character marks on the right quarter, door and fender. It was almost a side-swipe type impact, but there was enough force still to push the front axle sideways about 1". I can live with all that, but now it won't run.
There are no fluid leaks and all the guages seemed to be OK after the crash. I drove it about 100 yards and parked it after it happened about 6 weeks ago and just left it parked until I had a chance to check it out. A few days ago I took it out for a test drive. It was noisy from what sounded like a new exhaust system leak but ran fine for 1 mile. Then it stopped running abruptly with a thunk sound. Attempts to restart it resulted in verrrry slow and labored cranking. After letting it sit for a few minutes, it fired up (slowly still) and I managed to limp it back home with this same ritual repeated 5 times in that mile. (A real battery killer.)
Now it will start up and run for a minute or two before it stops with the same thunk noise. And after this it has the same very slow cranking. I'm at a loss on this one. Any ideas on what's wrong with the engine.
There are no fluid leaks and all the guages seemed to be OK after the crash. I drove it about 100 yards and parked it after it happened about 6 weeks ago and just left it parked until I had a chance to check it out. A few days ago I took it out for a test drive. It was noisy from what sounded like a new exhaust system leak but ran fine for 1 mile. Then it stopped running abruptly with a thunk sound. Attempts to restart it resulted in verrrry slow and labored cranking. After letting it sit for a few minutes, it fired up (slowly still) and I managed to limp it back home with this same ritual repeated 5 times in that mile. (A real battery killer.)
Now it will start up and run for a minute or two before it stops with the same thunk noise. And after this it has the same very slow cranking. I'm at a loss on this one. Any ideas on what's wrong with the engine.