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Old Mar 12, 2012 | 09:27 AM
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DD TJ will be getting new water pump, thermostat, mechanical fan clutch, and a 05 rad because she decided yesterday to blow an endcap off my radiator.
ouch.
Old Mar 12, 2012 | 09:59 AM
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Good thing is I was playing on my trail an doing a hill climb an as I started up, the gauges went off beeping, noticed the temp shot up, so I backed her down, an shut it off. Which caused the radiator to blow a chunk out of the plastic end cap. She was due for a complete redo on cooling. The electrical fan I was using couldn't keep up when on the trails an thats the only time I noticed in the past few months when she would heat up.
Old Mar 12, 2012 | 10:34 AM
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the new owner has REDONE everything lol

Old Mar 12, 2012 | 12:14 PM
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Wow looks like poop now.
Old Mar 12, 2012 | 12:21 PM
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Good thing is I was playing on my trail an doing a hill climb an as I started up, the gauges went off beeping, noticed the temp shot up, so I backed her down, an shut it off. Which caused the radiator to blow a chunk out of the plastic end cap. She was due for a complete redo on cooling. The electrical fan I was using couldn't keep up when on the trails an thats the only time I noticed in the past few months when she would heat up.
so you're not a fan of the efan? I've been thinking about doing that conversion, my little inline 6 300 could use the extra umph from taking the mech fan off.
Old Mar 12, 2012 | 12:53 PM
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I probably didn't have the best setup. I just hooked the fan up to a toggle switch so I would have something since my mechanical fan died on me. I should have had it on a relay an this particular fan I had it setup as a puller an don't think it was running as good as possible. While driving normal, it ran fine. Sitting in traffic ran fine. 4wheelin not so much, occasionally would get into the 230's.
Old Mar 13, 2012 | 10:25 AM
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New pump, tstat, clutch fan, and radiator installed.

Jeep never gets to 210 now so I'm happy with that.


Currie rear uppers came to the house today so they'll be getting installed tonight
Old Mar 13, 2012 | 05:25 PM
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eh the jeep still looks fine to me.



anyway...
Old Mar 14, 2012 | 04:41 AM
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Curry arms installed fixed the vibrations. Flexed it out so see how she did an the rear tires gets into the flares now and with the stock upper arms it never did. May have touched them but with the old arms but the new arms the tires were wanting to rip flares off..........so I'm happy with the gains. Also the vehicle feels more planted, when driving the rear doesn't move around.

Next up is to install my SYE an get my driveshaft cut down for it.
Old Mar 17, 2012 | 09:32 AM
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had to jack up the monte the other day . . realized has pretty good flex in the rear lol . . . 3 out of the 4 wheels were still on the ground . . .





how it normally sits



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