My Jeep Cherokee 04 2.5crd cam belt broke today. Car jolted to a stop. Engine cranked but wouldn't fire. Peeked under cam belt cover and discovered to my shack and horror belt was gone. Wondering what kind of damage to expect.

 

It looks to be the same engine as is in mines (someone more knowledgeable will know for sure but they're both 2499cc and 141 bhp)

The damage internally was the 8 x rockers Merlin had said, if you look back over the thread, I think I've got the other costs noted.

 

You are one lucky bunny if what Merlin says is right in your case, certainly some engines are designed to "fail-safe" in the case of a snapped cam-belt. I've even seen a small booklet which indicated just which engines were badly damaged by snapped cam-belts, and curiously, most of the good ones were italian.

My Audi 100 Avant estate of many moons ago (2.5ltr. 5cyl. diesel 3-speed automatic) that went like the bats out of hell, broke it's cam-belt, snapped the o/h camshaft in 5 places and wrecked the journals it ran in. These were in the cyl. head. A new head cost more than the vehicle was worth (over £2,500 in the nineties) , so I tried a s/hand one. It refused to start no matter what anyone did with it. It was sold for scrap, in fact a write-off.

I have the receipt for replacement at 85,000mile of the cambelt on my GV., one of the reasons I bought it.

All classic London black cabs use this engine, and many do a quarter million miles and more as it's a very understressed engine.

Everyone's got fingers crossed for you.

Leedsman.

Oh, BTW, some of the latest Gates belts are reckoned to last 150,000mile.

 

Hi there. Firstly I would like to say hi to everybody on here being my first post.
My voyager suffered a cambelt failure a few weeks ago. I work for a garage in Croydon and the mechanic got 2 hours into it and basically told me "it's dead"

I really love my chrysler so I looked into my options.
These were :-
Bin it
2nd hand engine
Try to repair

After reading this very thread and also being lucky enough to have a new parts man (who used to work for chrysler and had a friend who was a chrysler mechanic) I decided to look at this as a repair.
The chrysler guys were telling me that I would have done the followers guaranteed and that a new set from chrysler is over £800. Ouch.

However, I found a good source on eBay who were selling new rockers and lifters for 12.90 each. The postage was a bit eye watering but if a full set of 16 was bought, postage was free.

So I bought the followers, cambelt kit, gasket and injector seals off eBay. Also got a set of discs and pads. The whole lot was a little over £400.

So yesterday morning I gave the parts to the mechanic. He rang me at 5.15 that afternoon to tell me he was done and I could pick up my car.

So thank you all for all the info and to anyone who has suffered a cambelt failure, it is possible to save these lovely vehicles.