I'm considering picking up a used 4.0 and starting to build up a fresh motor.
I can pick up a 2000 4.0 about an hour from me for 175 bucks. It has a wrist pin rattle and need to be rebuilt, apparently the head was redone 4k miles ago.
I'd like to rebuild it but not sure what I'm getting myself into.
The initial block and all else is pretty cheap, but I'm thinking I'll just put a Clearwater head on it, and build it up with reliability being the ultimate goal.
I'm competent with a torque wrench and I don't mind gaskets and things like that but I'm obviously not a machinist.
Assuming I need to get the cylinders honed and have the block decked plus other decent quality rebuild parts what would be a good ballpark estimate on completing something like this?
I can pick up a 2000 4.0 about an hour from me for 175 bucks. It has a wrist pin rattle and need to be rebuilt, apparently the head was redone 4k miles ago.
I'd like to rebuild it but not sure what I'm getting myself into.
The initial block and all else is pretty cheap, but I'm thinking I'll just put a Clearwater head on it, and build it up with reliability being the ultimate goal.
I'm competent with a torque wrench and I don't mind gaskets and things like that but I'm obviously not a machinist.
Assuming I need to get the cylinders honed and have the block decked plus other decent quality rebuild parts what would be a good ballpark estimate on completing something like this?