JUNK Jeep Ram 3.0 ECODIESEL Engine Teardown. Why Do These ALL Fail?

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Here's weekly dose of your catastrophic engine forensics! Every week you can find a new teardown of some abused, misused and/or poorly designed engine. Here are some of my favorites:
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Today we tear down a core 3.0L Ecodiesel from a 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Unfortunately I do NOT know the mileage of this particular engine. This engine is found in the 2014-2020 Jeep Grand Cherokee and Dodge Ram 1500. There are many other vehicles this engine is offered in in the rest of the world as it is a global engine, made and designed by VM Motori. Of every engine I've torn down on this channel, the 3.0 eco diesel is one of the most complex and tightly packaged engines ever. It did come apart pretty easy but it looks like almost every major service is an engine out, or cab off procedure. It seems the failure of this engine is "what happens" to many of these engines. I've always only seen bottom end trouble with them and have even heard they are not rebuildable due to lack of available bearings and crankshafts. So why do they fail? and seemingly prematurely? Is it maintenance or lack there of? Design? component quality?

Why am I doing this? My name is Eric and I own and run a full service auto salvage business called Importapart. Part of our model includes dismantling blown and bad engines to salvage the good parts to resell. We do not rebuild engines, merely supply parts to those who do.

I really hope you enjoyed this teardown, as always I love all of the comments, feedback and even the criticism. Catch you on the next one!

-Eric