TimJ408
10-05-2009, 09:13 PM
Hey, it's me Tim, the unactive active member. Before I get my problem, let me give you some quick and always fun info - I have a 2001 Cherokee. 4.0, Auto, 5" lift, 31" or 33" tires, and just hit 100,000 miles...
So, I just added another 2" of lift to my jeep, replaced the tracbar, shocks, SS brake lines, and still have finished. I was feeling invisible with my "new" jeep and my newly acquired 33" tires (that are sick by the way). Cars move out of the way, friends call me crazy (and quit coming up with wise things to say when I say I'll run right over the top of their cars, lol). But not all is well, my jeep has been running at 210-215, then one day the check gauges light and sound thing come on for the first time ever! It read 250 (not the max number it reads to). I pull over and without shutting it off it goes back down. (I should mention that it jumped up, not climbed up, if that matters) So I pull back onto the road and got home, didn't happen again. Couple days later I am doing 55 at 215 degrees when I hit a bumb going uphill and it jumps to 250. Light and stuff comes on, I figure I'm getting false readings or something, what do I know. And sure enough it goes back down and I continue on for a few days. Now this sunday I'm coming back home and it does it again, but then goes from 250 to 260/max... Now i'm scared. I keep going hoping it will go away, but it doesn't. Still going, still high, now i'm loosing oil pressure and power. I pull over and what do you know, I sure wasn't getting a false reading... Skipping the details. I drove the next 2 miles home after waiting for it to sit and cool. It took an extra stop though because I overheated after 1 mile. Now its in the drive way, and I doubt I can drive it anywhere, and I'd like to know where to start.
Let me add a few notes:
-It consumes coolant
-Never has coolant in the res, just 1/2" of water
-Lots of water from the exhaust in the morning, I don't know what's normal
-Extremely dirty radiator and cap with dark green crusies (not metal)
-I have the milkshake on the radiator cap and oil fill cap, not dipstick
Please read everything, and know that I very much apprieciate any thoughts or advice. I'm 18, lack experience, but am mechanically incline. All of the information that I have learned is from researching and studing. I live with a ex-roofer, not a mechanic, but can answer what ever question you would like to try and get to the bottom of this. I will get a cell pic I took of my radiator cap, so you can identify the crap in it.
Thank you very much! -Tim Johnson [email protected]
So, I just added another 2" of lift to my jeep, replaced the tracbar, shocks, SS brake lines, and still have finished. I was feeling invisible with my "new" jeep and my newly acquired 33" tires (that are sick by the way). Cars move out of the way, friends call me crazy (and quit coming up with wise things to say when I say I'll run right over the top of their cars, lol). But not all is well, my jeep has been running at 210-215, then one day the check gauges light and sound thing come on for the first time ever! It read 250 (not the max number it reads to). I pull over and without shutting it off it goes back down. (I should mention that it jumped up, not climbed up, if that matters) So I pull back onto the road and got home, didn't happen again. Couple days later I am doing 55 at 215 degrees when I hit a bumb going uphill and it jumps to 250. Light and stuff comes on, I figure I'm getting false readings or something, what do I know. And sure enough it goes back down and I continue on for a few days. Now this sunday I'm coming back home and it does it again, but then goes from 250 to 260/max... Now i'm scared. I keep going hoping it will go away, but it doesn't. Still going, still high, now i'm loosing oil pressure and power. I pull over and what do you know, I sure wasn't getting a false reading... Skipping the details. I drove the next 2 miles home after waiting for it to sit and cool. It took an extra stop though because I overheated after 1 mile. Now its in the drive way, and I doubt I can drive it anywhere, and I'd like to know where to start.
Let me add a few notes:
-It consumes coolant
-Never has coolant in the res, just 1/2" of water
-Lots of water from the exhaust in the morning, I don't know what's normal
-Extremely dirty radiator and cap with dark green crusies (not metal)
-I have the milkshake on the radiator cap and oil fill cap, not dipstick
Please read everything, and know that I very much apprieciate any thoughts or advice. I'm 18, lack experience, but am mechanically incline. All of the information that I have learned is from researching and studing. I live with a ex-roofer, not a mechanic, but can answer what ever question you would like to try and get to the bottom of this. I will get a cell pic I took of my radiator cap, so you can identify the crap in it.
Thank you very much! -Tim Johnson [email protected]