No offense taken Geordi. We enjoyed working on this project, and the students learned a lot from it. It was one of the better group project from that year, and they did a lot of work.
Thanks for working with them, and thanks for the help with my CRD when you were here in CO working your magic. As I mentioned on the FB page, if my Jeep gets to 200k miles, I'll be calling on you to come out for a head swap. I'm at 125k, and I feel I'm on borrowed time. I wish the report was even more definitive, but I don't think we are going to see many of these KJ CRDs making 300k miles without exhaust valve intervention. Also, the students should not have referred to the later VM Motori 2.8 engines used by GM. Those that did some literature review got ahead of themselves.
We only looked at 2005-2006 Jeeps, as you know, but someone mentioned above.
geordi wrote:
Jerry (Dent) - I didn't know if you wanted direct credit for all of this, so please accept my apologies if it seems like I was leaving you out of it. There has been a fair amount of "noise" that I have been hopefully successful in shielding you from about this.
That said, I am extremely grateful for your work and testing on these, the information may not be anything actionable against VM, but that was NEVER a goal of mine anyway - knowing that it would never go anywhere with them at all. But your gift of information to the community has been amazing, now each owner just has to decide where they want to go with the information for themselves.
The only credit I will accept for myself is being the public face of the project and a set of semi-skilled hands collecting and forwarding the dead parts for cataloging and evaluations. ALL the credit goes to Jerry and his students.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!