Id say so becuase the gauge olny goes up to 260

 

idk, i think its only cause the top of my fan guard snapped off.
when im moving forward im good.

 

my gauge use to go to 270

 

Im just saying id be worried at 250

 

I'm at around 200.

 

mines only been to half two times, usually it sits under 1/4 the whole time is that too cold?

 

I ran without a fan shroud at all for awhile with no problems. How's your fan clutch working?

 

I run at 210 all the time

 

My old 91 started getting over 210 and kept going up till it was overheating up hills. Had to by a bigger radiator. All our others have run pretty good @ 210.

 

My 99 used to overheat in summer when ambient temp hit 85+ in stop and go traffic. You should be concerned at 250 as this is the "redline" for engine damage (by the gauge marking anyway). You should stop doing whatever it is you are doing, pulling in your case, and let the engine idle until cooled. Don't shut the engine off in this case as the fan will cool the engine quicker than if you turn the engine off. At least this is what I did to cool mine when it got that hot.

Incidently, My overheating in summer problem was solved when my wife hit a deer. I decided to only replace the radiater but not the A/C (we had moved to a cooler part of the state). This allowed the air to hit the radiater directly and now I run at about 200 with no more overheating problems when it is hot outside.

If your engine is getting that hot pulling, I wonder what you might also be overheating in the process? There is a reason they sold the "tow package" with these. Seems odd that it would get so hot just pulling someone out though.

 

I just got a 98 XJ. It runs around 200. Glaad to hear that is normal.

 

Always 210 on the road, went up to like 220 crawling.

 

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Mien was running around 230. I did a coolant flush and replaced the hoses which dropped it down to around 210. I then repalced the t-stat and water pump and it is lucky to hit 190 now. Takes a long time to heat up this time of year. But its nice not havign to worry about if its going to over heat when I am in the woods being hard on it.

 

Mine runs at 210º - 220º.

210º is considered normal operating temp.