I did confirm that and with the new tstat in no overheating, however now I have no heat blowing out of the vents

 

That's odd... not sure why that would happen. Why on earth are you turning the heater on anyway?

Glad you got the overheat issue covered.

 

more than likely your no heat issue is a air bubble stuck in the heater core, turn the heat on and open the radiator cap and let it bleed the air out some more. watch the temp gauge while doing this so that you don't overheat the engine due to having the cap off

 

Well she over heated again yesterday after taking her for a little test drive around the neighborhood, I'm starting to think that my water pump is bad and it isn't circulating coolant correctly. Any ideas?

 

Pull the pump off and spin it. See if the vanes inside the pump are moving. If not, you probably need a new pump.

 

Were u sure to bleed all air from the cooling system?

 

I'm looking forward to some of that video from yesterday... post it up guys! Good times out there. Who needs lockers???

 

i kno right, soon as i get a new computer or get a progam installed on my moms computer ill be uploading them.

 

Cant wait to see the vids, iv spent more time on youtube than I have on the trails haha. How were the water levels? If they arent to high Im tempted to take the xj offroad for the first time. When I had the yj I took it out there and crossing a creek the water was several ft deep!

 

water levels are down quite a bit, mostly mid tire deep if not shallower. did dip the exhaust in once or twice. but youd be fine.

 

worst case, if we get to a part where you aren't comfortable doing with it stock, you can always jump in with someone else. the biggest thing for you will be flex, id recommend that you disconnect the sway bars.

 

Thanks for the reply. Im going to find a pair of sway bar discos, cant I remove the rear sway bar entirely? Keeping the xj stock for now, waiting on a reply to pick up some honeycomb wheels and then il get some meaty tires mounted up. Nows the time to wheel, hasnt rained and its not blazing hot for once!

 

Yeah you can remove the rear sway bar. Front disco kit shouldn't be terribly hard to do yourself either... especially stock.

 

Yeah shouldnt be a problem, I saw a new kit on CL a week or two ago. Going back to tinker, trying to get one final problem figured out on the xj.

 

What's the one final problem?