need ideas to convince the rents to let me do the engine swap!
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need ideas to convince the rents to let me do the engine swap!
so i was supposed to go pick up a 99 engine today to swap into my 01 with a cracked head. but my parents decided to go crazy this morning saying its to much work for me, i wont be able to get it done blah blah blah. they are really trying to push me to sell it or trade it in but a Cherokee with a cracked head will be greatly reduced in value correct? They keep telling me to cut my losses and start over but that seems like a lot of work to. i need some help here as I'm out of ideas to argue my case other than i can do it and its good experience. Help!
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Tell them it's a good learning expierience, you wanna be able to do stuff on your own, it's gonna save u a ton of money. I would just do it.
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they don't listen to the its good experience argument to much. there not mechanically inclined so they don't understand all the work I've put into it so at this point there just being difficult
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Why are you replacing the entire engine? THe head is cracked not the block... Swap the head out. It make take one good afternoon.
Did you buy the Jeep? Tell em to STFU it's your Jeep.
Did you buy the Jeep? Tell em to STFU it's your Jeep.
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Originally Posted by lowrange2
Why are you replacing the entire engine? THe head is cracked not the block... Swap the head out. It make take one good afternoon.
Did you buy the Jeep? Tell em to STFU it's your Jeep.
Did you buy the Jeep? Tell em to STFU it's your Jeep.
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I want to swap because the engines had the cracked head for a while while I replaced everything else trying to figure out the problem. I bought the jeep and pay for it but it's registered to my parents because I wasn't 18 when I got it and it was a **** ton cheaper that way
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Originally Posted by E-Rok
lol @ asking parents to do an engine swap