I have done dozens and dozens of head gasket jobs on Neons and such over the years. But I started a timing chain job on a 2.7 once and got so frustrated with that complicated sludged-up piece of crap that I gave up and junked the car.
Only time I have ever done that.
Good luck with yours!
this car has been an ok car at best, luckily I bought it cheap, but no matter how much I take care of it, dumb things on it fall apart and it's almost as if it was designed to make it as hard as possible to work on. This car is the reason why I'll never buy a modern Chrysler vehicle again.
Don't lump all of Mopar's newer offerings together with the 2.7s.
The new Hemis have been very good engines. The 3.3s and 3.8s in the minivans have a stellar record. And the 3.2s and 3.5s in the sedans were much better than the 2.7s.
The 2.7s were as poor an engine as Mopar has had in recent memory. Not all of them, but enough that a person is really rolling the dice with one.
