So today i was changing my 7mm plug wires to 8.5mm well long story short i moved my raidiator hose up a bit to connect the #5 wire. Unfortunatly this cracked that hose and i drove over to the farm and noticed steam/smoke coming from my grill area. Popped the hood and sure enought that hose was cracked, now it didn't overheat it was at about 230-240 right before the red. Well i took the other car picked up a hose and refilled w/coolant. Now that im watching this gauge, it still looks like its running a little high, just a pube hair off 200. Just wondering if this is normal, and if i may have damaged anything.

 

200 is pretty much normal i think. 200 - 210 .....

 

I got a 93 Cherokee sport... Around 200 is normal. When I first bought my jeep I thought I had an overheating problem because I would notice after a lot of driving and then slowing down my gauge would go up around 200-210. I just had to realize then when I slowed the car down you don’t have all that air rushing around the engine cooling it down, then the temp would rise to about 200. But it’s all good, our jeeps are supposed to be like that.

 

well 200 is normal if you havent flushed in awhile and wont cause you any problems... I do, however, reccommend flushing the radiator with atleast water a few times... all the erosion products in the Jeep coolant system tend to accumulate and this will break them up.... you can also use a coolant flush product, but I find the $20 or so youll spend doesnt do as good as a job and its just as easy as a continual flush with water.

I noticed you get alot of the buildup right near the cap, and again at the connection for the heater hoses, and then at the heater itself. I reccommend if you change one hose, change them all and do a thorough flush... do that at it should run a little cooler which will help you in the long run, especially if you havent done a rebuild yet, and are losing a little oil.

 

I've owned three jeeps they have all ran around 200, seems normal enough

 

sweet thanks a ton i actually haven't drove it since because i was afriad well ill def do a radiator flush. glad i caught it before i ruined something. Btw am i supposed to notice a diference in proformance when changing to those 8.5 mm wires and the brass tip dist. cap?