Try to rotate the engine by putting a socket on the bolt in the middle of the crankshaft pulley. Turn clockwise.

4.0 engines can lock up as a result of a broken secondary timing chain, or a failed connecting rod bearing. Neither problem can be identified without doing at least some disassembly.

If yours is locked up, you're best off looking for a used engine or selling the car: piece by piece if you can, or in one lump if you have to.

 

I have to admire your optimisim

Good luck with the sale.

 

C'mon norri, it's a roller. A high roller, at that.

 

YOU NEED TO CHECK THE STARTER AS IVE HAD 2 LOCK UP THE ENGINE TIGHTER THAN...WELL TIGHT. bOTH V8'S SO DROP THE STARTER AND CHECK FIRST

 

That's a good one...you just saved somebody a car someday.

I'm guessing you wouldn't hear the "clack" when the drive extends, since it's already stuck?

 

No, and the first one I swore was the engine, except it would turn either way off the crank bolt. The 2nd was a good customer who called me last year over the weekend. I told he she needed a starter(she let me listen on her phone) and come in monday Ide do it while she waited...well she waited alright...2 weeks till she was at the store and needed a wrecker...and her engine was locked up tighter than...her ex husband

 

I once had a Rolls Canardly.

They roll down hills and can 'ardly get up the other side

 

That fits the trend, things have been going downhill pretty steadily around here. At first I thought it was me, then the spammers, but now I think it's because of the jokes. So we're both to blame!

 

WELL THEN THAT MEENS YOUR CAR IS TOTALLED. i MEEN I JUST FINISHED A CERT PREOWNED 06 STYPE R WITH 40K ON IT THAT WE SOLD FOR $26K...IVE WORKED ON THIS CAR SINCE NEW AND KNEW THE OWNER WELL, SHE TOOK GREAT CARE OF IT. IF I WAS HAVING A BETTER YR AT WORK IDE HAVE GOTTEN MY WIFE THIS FOR A 50TH B DAY PRESENT......