How should I clean out my Jeep 2.5?

[SwampSurvivor]

Played with the flush and fill. The amount of rust that came out, wow! I'm going to do it a bit more tonight. May get around to doing the thermostat. Picking up some Supertech 15w-40 and MMO too!

I should note, that if this were one of my other three vehicles, ones that I actually care about, I would not be more interested in doing things correctly.




Originally Posted By: SilverFusion2010
I'd fix the exhaust before I worried about the floor. I'm not a fan of straight pipe unless I've got earplugs and muffs and a whole lotta power


The floor wasn't patched at the time for some frame repairs. Now that the section is fixed I am finishing that spot. The exhaust crossover is ripped due to a broken engine mount. I have the engine mount and some flex pipe, should be good with that.


Originally Posted By: addyguy
Driving around with exhaust being pulled up into the cabin is NOT good.

For a junker, I'd just change the oil to ST 15W-40 with a pint of MMO in it and run it for a bit to do a slow cleanout.


That's the plan for now.


Originally Posted By: GMBoy
Weld or pop rivot some steel to fix the floor and get a junkyard motor and you have a few ore years out of that Jeep.


I started to reconstruct the body with some self tappers and an old bed frame. Most of the floor is in as a Cherokee roof, I just had to leave one section out to patch the frame.

Woods toy, doesn't need to be perfect.

 

[SwampSurvivor]

A new 195 degree thermostat seems to have solved most of the overheating!

Have about 250 miles on it with the ST15w-40 and MMO. Still clear. Will be driving it more.

 

[WyrTwister]

Fantastic , congratulation !

Can not remember if I have ever had a thermostat stick closed . I have had them stick open . Heater / defroster would barely get slightly warm ! :-(

Wyr
God bless

 

[BrocLuno]

I've had a number stick closed. Worst was on a Volvo. Drive 10 miles. Let it cool. Drive 10 miles, let it cool. Until I could get to tools and parts store. Long trip out of Lake Chelan ...

 

[SwampSurvivor]

I love this thing! It is such a hunk of junk!

Drove it ~300 miles over the weekend. There is, literally, not a fluid that doesn't leak!

The JB weld on the radiator gave out. Bought a junkyard radiator and it leaked worse. So more JB weld into the radiator (and my $40 back). So between 2 flushes it's doing pretty good now. No more brown coolant.

Oil is down a bit. I"m really not surprised. About 200 highway miles and it has to be run foot to the floor. It's allowed to burn some oil. Time for more ST15w40. Still clean looking. I wonder if the OCOD is filling up?

I now need to fill the brake fluid reservoir, differentials, transmission, transfer case.

The gas gauge is slightly off. Had 5/8 on the gauge and decided to fill it up. Put in 14 gallons

 

[demarpaint]

Originally Posted By: Miller88
I love this thing! It is such a hunk of junk!

Drove it ~300 miles over the weekend. There is, literally, not a fluid that doesn't leak!

The JB weld on the radiator gave out. Bought a junkyard radiator and it leaked worse. So more JB weld into the radiator (and my $40 back). So between 2 flushes it's doing pretty good now. No more brown coolant.

Oil is down a bit. I"m really not surprised. About 200 highway miles and it has to be run foot to the floor. It's allowed to burn some oil. Time for more ST15w40. Still clean looking. I wonder if the OCOD is filling up?

I now need to fill the brake fluid reservoir, differentials, transmission, transfer case.

The gas gauge is slightly off. Had 5/8 on the gauge and decided to fill it up. Put in 14 gallons

It sounds like fun. Keep us updated!

 

[SwampSurvivor]

Had it on it's first offroad trip. This happened ...

Surprisingly enough, it wasn't rusty. The frame was rusty around it and was beefed up , previously, with 1/4''. The frame on these is only 1/8'' thick. The 1/4'' didn't move and transferred all of the stress to this spot and that's where it broke.

I suspect it's going to break in the future in a different spot or two, so I will have to check and fix before the next offroad trip.

 

[WyrTwister]

So , that is a frame crack ?

May have to reinforce it the complete length of the frame ?

 

[SwampSurvivor]

Originally Posted By: WyrTwister
So , that is a frame crack ?

May have to reinforce it the complete length of the frame ?


Oh yea. Completely broke the frame. Only noticed it because the body started tearing apart.

I'm trailering it to the next ride. Luckily it's more of a mud run (ugh) than actual trail ride so I shouldn't break the frame again. Then it's going into the garage and I'm going to be checking and adding lots of metal to it!

boxed frames are a death sentence