it wasnt somking when it died. Thats the funny thing. The coolant reservoir wasnt even really bubbling that much. When the problem first happened it was white smoke. Yeah, we seem to not want to spend more than 3000 dollars on cars and it usually gets us in trouble. He bought a jeep just for mudding and destroyed it in like 3 months. It was only like 1000 bucks to start with

 

Guess you need to wait and see what they say. Overheating, but not boiling?

"Hey Guys, My jeep overheated on the trail" ....

Sounds odd. So the gauge went high, it just stopped, but was not boiling.
You might be fine, something else completely, maybe it just got hot because there is no shroud, or the rad, and something else quit, like the coil.

Maybe the coolant was not circulating at all!

White smoke could be a chevy with a bad vacuum modulator on the trans.
Blueish white smoke is oil.
Steam is white but dissipates really fast.

Where you being tailed by a chevy?

 

prob. just steam then. It didnt stay for long. No. The first time it overheated it was boiling and smoking. It didnt die on the trail. It kept running. It died when i tried to drive it to the shop. Yeah man, hopefully i will get a call tonight. I just dont know what to do cause i have like no experience with this haha. But yeah he was supposed to look at it today, and tell me if it was cracked or just warped or whatever. Said the only thing he has seen hurt the 4.0s was running hot, never had any knocking, or never seen any with a rod sticking out of the side or anything like that.

 

I find the Chevy is usually hooked to my tow hitch (ya ya not supposed to do that) as I'm pulling him out.:-) not a Chevy fan.

 

10-4. I'd rather Fix Or Repair Daily, but the 350 it's self isn't a bad piece of work.

Octavious, I hope it didn't boil completely dry! (that would "do" it!)

 

think it might have:/ the guys secretary person called my mom today (i was in school) and gave her a price of around 1000 bucks. The guy was supposed to call my dad and talk details later. He has not called us yet so we are still not sure of what he is going to do for around 1000 bucks

 

Well if you need to do a headgasket job $1000 really isnt that bad (around here anyways) considering the labor and machine work if necessary.

 

my 89 has 4.0 HO badges on it. is it just some newer decals thrown on it or did they put HOs in 89's?

 

Its just the decals/badges. The 89 never came with an HO. Infact I have a 2.5 badge on mines even though it isnt. I just thought it was funny. LOL.

 

1000 isn't that bad to pay a shop to do it... but I can do it at home on a saturday if I start early, and be done by the time I go to bed for under 200 bucks.

 

yeah i called thhe guy, he said they were taking the head off tomorrow and pressure testing it, then if it is usable theyd have it in the machine shop by friday afternoon. And if it is not usable then it will cost more

 

I was asking a Chrysler dealership part runner about that. and he said it wouldnt fit -___-....*lil bastard* and ive blown 2 bottles since i had my 90 xj. ive noticed at my shop that the 91+ have the newer system that spouts out. can i just install it myself if i bought it? or is it more customization?

 

Slides right in.

 

Gotta change the t-stat housing for the fan sender right?

 

Depends. After market ones have the bung in the rad. Only thing to change is the heater switch valve