Well today is a sad day. I have been over heating for the last month, lost power steering and can barely turn the wheel and I'm pretty sick of dumping money into it so it might be good bye .. thinking of selling and getting a cj or another jeep.

 

R.I.P.

 

Drop a $500 dollar used engine in there and run 'er another 200,000 miles!

 

agreed!!! 212,000 on a 4.0 I6 HO. love my devil goat !

 

Have you even looked into why its over heating?

 

Put in a new tstat and put spacers under the hood and I'm putting in new steering pump tommorow.. the tstat didn't do jack. Tried without tstat in at all and still over heated. Once I get my steering right imma try again with my new 180* tstat in. If that doesn't work imma put in a new water pump and if that doesn't do it I think I'm gonna throw in the towel

 

im no professional by any means but i have had some experience in the overheating area. i live in texas where it gets 110 pretty easily and i blew a head gasket in a 4 cylinder pickup once and decided to spend $15 and do it my self. the jeep looks about the same once wasnt too hard and fixed the cooling problem pretty cheap for less than $50, instead of 500 for a junk yard motor.

 

quick question, is your electric fan kicking on?
A while back, my 89 over heated every time i took it out
Then i noticed my electric fan was not turning on
Got a fan relay out of the junk yard, no more over heating.
LOL at the time, i took out the Tstat and never put one it back in!!

 

Seems to be kicking in when ac is on but no other time

 

well my A/C does not even work, and mine kicks on....
hmmm

 

I'm taking it to the mechanic on Monday and gonna get it flushed and i will ask him about the fan..

 

The housing has a crack but it spins with ac on???

 

Maybe let it heat up to normal temp, and see if it kicks on
with the AC off, shut it down before it over heats of course .

 

The E-fan should come on at around 220. I'm willing to bet is that, radiator needs flushed, or the system just needs new coolant. Depending on how cold it gets in winter where you are, mix as much water as possible into the coolant (I run about 75% water, 25% ethylene glycol)
If the water pump was dying, you would hear about it because your engine would sound like a diesel from the shot pump bearings.

 

Maybe you broke or cracked the rad it a hose to the rad. Check those.

transmitted to Cherokee Forum using my Telekinetic abilities!!