jlach993
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Hey everyone, this is more to give you guys awareness of what happened to my LR4 and to hopefully prevent this from happening to you guys. I had 126K miles on my truck. The timing chain guides/tensioner was never touched, all original. I had no slack in the chain to my knowledge and smooth quiet idles (cold starts/warmed up). I religiously changed the oil every 6 months or 5K miles. I figured i would tackle the chains once i started hearing the rattling or if i got any codes indicating the timing was slightly off. Anyways i was on the merrit pkwy in CT and i was driving it pretty hard. I had it in sport mode and drove it pretty hard the entire trip, not going to lie. After about 2 hours of driving there was traffic on the pwky so i slowed down to a standstill and basically rolled for another 10 mins. Then once traffic cleared up i started driving normally (still in sport mode) and all of a sudden a jolt and power steering/engine went out. I pulled over and oil was spewing out the bottom. Pretty catastrophic failure. My guess is the guides or something failed and the engine went kaput. Anyways, i did all other major services only a few months ago (tranny seals and fluid/filter, front & rear diff fluid change, transfer case, control arms, all 4 oem air struts). Basically the car is well maintained but engine is done. I have no idea what to do next with it. I have a 2014 range supercharged LWB so i’m not looking to put anymore money into this LR4. If anyone is interested in it give me a shout. Willing to let it go for cheap if you’re going to pick it up lol.
