CoxynotKirsty

Full workshop manual for 2009 available on a Mk5 facebook group. It's in the files section.

It's a bit late in the day but these are available and they are not expensive. I have also modelled these and had them 3d printed in Nylon.  Only problem was that it cost around $50.00 AUS to get it done.

This is an old post but if there is any interest I will dig out the information

Coxy

Oh, just in case I disappear, the company hat was offering the part converts the Town and Country to wheelchair accessible in the states.

There is a Mk5 facebook group that has Owners Manuals for most models and years. Problem is they are predominantly for the US and Canadian market but there should be enough to get you going.  The Multimedia System instructions are there as well.

If you do join up, check out the "files" section

There have been quite a few requests for this part, and, as near as I can tell they are not available as a separate item.

One thing to note is that they are handed - and, for any one reading this, especially older vehicles, they are absolutely not supposed to move or rotate in any way.

There is a locating pin that seats the moulding into the lower steel sliding arm and if you look at the actual moulding, there are recesses so it clears the two nuts that fix the "hold open" latch to the same arm.

The central bolt comes undone, the black moulding starts to rotate, breaking the pin and then destroys itself on these nuts.

I have two of these and on both of them had failures.

Has anyone here dropped their 2.8 crd?

If so, how did you support the engine?

It looks like you have to drop the engine and raise the car high enough to slide the engine out.

thanks in advance

Coxy

Has anyone here dropped their 2.8 crd?

If so, how did you support the engine?

It looks like you have to drop the engine and raise the car high enough to slide the engine out.

thanks in advance

Coxy

There is one freely downloadable on Cardiag website

I think someone must have got a hold of the electronic version and then printed all the sections to pdf.

It's not the most elegant document with lots of sections repeating themselves but it's got all the info there.

Purchased a 2008 2.8 Diesel Limited recently from an auction for a very low price with expectations of engine issues - it has 275000 kilometers on clock.

Starts well, has a slight miss but has poor acceleration and appears to be slipping. 

Initially took it to a Diesel Diagnostics for compression test (but not wet) and gave numbers of 400, 400, 340, 320.

We sat down and decided it was rings and probably a new engine - totally convinced me not to contemplate a rebuild.

Then went to one of the few independent Jeep/Chrysler people in Melbourne. They happen to have a 2012 engine with 40K on the clock so took the car in today so they could look at it in anticipation of doing an engine swap and they tell me they couldn't find anything wrong!

So it got me thinking............

Its down on power - I also have a 2008 3.8 petrol (the diesel is a project) and the power is nothing near as good.

When I quizzed the first guy about the engine I asked about collapsed rocker cams and he said that the compression in the cylinders would be high, not low (they tend to fail closed) which made sense - as we assumed it was rings.

But what if we got it wrong - the normal cylinders were pushing 340 @ 320 psi and it is cylinders 1 and 2 are the problem.

So now the questions

Anyone done a compression test on the 2.8 and if so, what numbers did you get. 

Anyone dropped a rocker arm and, if so, how did it manifest itself?

Thanks in advance

Coxy