She is home but not well!



Look at behind the head! You see that organe THATS COOLANT!!!!!

 

Thats coolant that needed changing quite a while ago....

And if you have a burnt valve anyway, pull that sucker change the plug and give it a valve job. The shop that checks the head, should be able to pop the freeze plug right in.

 

The coolant has always been that color we flush it 5 times one week and it was still like that. Wait til I post a pic of the rad cap!!! I use well water. To cheap to use bottle. The water will be clear for a day or two then turns to rust red. also I'm broke so aint got the money for a valve job!

 

I guess you're going to pay a lot more now than you would of had you used distilled water. All of the minerals in the well water has probably wreaked havoc on your entire cooling system. Add that damage on to whatever abuse the DAPO has put it through, and you end up with your heep on a trailer and a big repair bill.

Good luck with your repair job. If nothing else, you'll learn a ton about the engine of your Jeep. Hopefully you'll also learn that sometimes cheap isn't really cheap in the long run.

 

Dude you ever heard of 409 and water. Clean that damn engine. Hell you may even need to get some simple green on that. Prolly get better gas mileage too he he

 

We don't have a problem in none of the other cars/trunk we have about the coolant system and we run well water. Sometime you don't have money for the good stuff and when you do get it something goes wrong! we think its something in the motor causing it to turn red,IDK. But we are goin to flush her really good when we get her fixed. I think the red has built up in the bottom of the rad. and keeps causing it to turn red. The red is like a sludgie texture.

 

I got a bottle of purple power! I will clean it before it goes back together. Will running alittle of that through the motor it will hurt it? I may clean it a little.

 

The red is from rust deposits sitting in both your radiator and cooling passages. Most likely ALL of your freeze plugs are close to being rusted through. By using well water, you not only increase the rust issue, but you also stand a good chance of having hard water deposits block a cooling passage which can lead to such things such as burnt valves, premature water pump failures, and blown freeze plugs. Besides which, distilled water is less than $2.00 (click for link) a gallon. It's just good insurance for your cooling system. There is nothing wrong with using a garden hose and well water to flush your cooling system, just be sure to use distilled/purified water to mix with you coolant.

 

I wouldnt put any of that chit in my motor, Buy some Seafoam. That chit is magic.

 

Seafoam isn't for the the WATER, and we do use it. I was just playin on the purplepower in the motor.

 

oops i thought you meant in the engine oil area. I dont know what purple power is sounds like the stuff i clean my windshield with. lol

 

The red was there before we got it so I don't know if was our water, but everyone around he uses well water without problems, I ain't worried a bout it at the moment, I know we have to flush it really good when we fix what is wrong with it now. The burnt valve is because daddy ran it Hot for about ten miles up the interstate and blow the head gasket, didn't have the money to fix then so it will problem get fixed this time.

 

It's a purple version of simple green.

 

Montana XJ is right.. The reddish sludge is from the minerals in the well water reacting to the metals contained in the block and cooling system. Well water is cheap. But hard water deposits can do some serious damage. Chances are your radiator passages are getting plugged also with this stuff, which will lead to radiator failure or more overheating issues.

I probably understand being broke better than you do. But fixing something correctly once ends up being cheaper in the long run.

 

Has anyone got any head work done latly? What is the goin rate?