Then I fired up the engine to see how it was running. I checked all the bolts/nuts on the valve rockers. That is good news, especially on such an old engine as this. I was very pleased by how everything inside the valve cover looked. Very easy, unfortunately, I broke one of the CCV attachments. Unclip the various cables and hoses, undo the 15 bolts and that's it. It was leaking and I had a spare one, so I thought I might as well have a look under the valve cover. Next, I decided to replace the valve cover gasket. That was all the remaining jobs from earlier. So I got myself a new bolt and torqued it up to 75 Nm!! On the newer Jeeps, it is a 10.9 bolt that requires only 75 Nm. Another guy had run into the same problem as me. It seems that somewhere in the late 90s Jeep changed the specification for these bolts. So I went onto a Facebook Jeep Cherokee group and asked for advice. They double-checked that they had given me the correct bolt. I phoned the part shop that supplied the bolt. I also had to pry out the nut with the broken bolt from the chassis bracket. But then again this was a 10.9 quality bolt. In all honesty, I thought 100 Nm was pretty high for an M10 bolt. Unfortunately, never made it to 100 Nm, it broke at about 85-90 Nm!!! I put my brand new bolt in and torqued it to the required 100Nm. It is important to have the car sitting normally on its wheels and suspension or the bolt won't go in. This time I put it back in about 2 minutes!! After 15 minutes of fiddling, we just gave up. Funnily enough, I had tried putting that back, with Peter earlier. The inspection cover on the tranny went back in as well. Luckily I knew I had taken images of these before, so it was just a matter of trawling through my previous posts. It was quite a challenge figuring out where the two little brackets went. Here are all the bits I still had to install and put in a new bolt for the track bar. As I mentioned we concentrated on all the stuff that required both of us and I would finish a few small things by myself. These were all the bits and pieces Peter and I had not put back on the Jeep yet. Yesterday I continued finishing all the little remaining items on the Jeep.
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