Did a little Googling and found a blog site devoted to Liberty diesels.
Seems the torque converter is the offending part and is does have a very
high failure rate. The rub is that the replacement converter doesn't lock up
until around 60 mph (instead of the OEM converter 45) which for most drivers
erased about 5 mpg. As Rosanne Rosannadana used to say, "It's always
something".
Charlie
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Not sure why you would want a Jeep diesel. As you point out they are
> > notoriously unreliable and don't get much better mileage than the gas
> > powered v6. Is that little bit of extra torque rally worth the hassle?
> >
>
>
> Actually, the diesel version is able to get up to 6-8 mpg better fuel
> mileage. The unreliability had nothing to do with the engine, just the
> transmissions. The global version has the manual transmission and it is
> much
> more reliable.
>
> This is a classic case of the marketing department dictating to engineering
> what they will offer to us stupid Americans that don't have a clue how to
> drive a stick.
>
> AG
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