I just called the china warehouse your Mopar tstat is in stock n ready to ship

 

Made in Israel.
Wrong warehouse.

 

With the system is cold, remove the overflow line from the filler neck. Squeeze the upper radiator hose. Does air/coolant spurt out of the overflow barb? You can be pretty aggressive with the squeezing.

 

I would def say replace your fan clutch if you havent done that. Changed a lot of thinngs to keep my jeep cool when i first got it and it was overheating. That made the biggest difference for me

 

Clearly thinking has changed in the last 10 years, nobody mentioned flow then, it was all about mech fans robbing power & modern cars all having e-fans. I removed the mech fan from my 1st XJ (as I had with my previous 4.0 Jaguars) but never got round to fitting a 2nd e-fan & never had any issues. Of course the hardest work that ever did was cruising around 90 for as much of 220 mile journey twice a week for a year, as conditions allowed. I was going to do the same with my current one, so didn't replace the shroud after doing the HG but never got any further. Despite what I've read since, apart from perhaps the e-fan cutting in more often than it might otherwise, it's not a problem. Seems to me that temperature issues are more to do with operating conditions than anything.

 

Except, as OP has already said, that isn't an option.

 

Happy to defer to your greater knowledge of such things but on this we'll have to agree to differ.

Israel's hardly an industrial powerhouse, so where is the Mopar facility there - & what else do they make?

Of course it's all academic, so far as I'm concerned, because here autoparts are a very different ballgame, in which the manufacturers and main dealers don't figure, at least once a vehicle's out of warranty.

 

People seem to think that the engery used to drive an E fan comes out of nowhere, adding additional fan motors puts more strain on your alternator which takes more power to turn, then there is the fact that you are converting mechanical energy to electrical energy then back to mechanical energy and efficiency is lost every time energy is converted from one form to another, with the fan clutch you are just using straight mechanical energy from the engine to turn the fan. Overall the e fan setup might use slightly less energy to operate compared to the mechanical fan, but comes at the cost of lower CFM. If you had an E fan setup that pulled as many CFM as the clutch fan not only would it not fit behind the radiator, it would actually take more power to turn than the clutch fan.

 

Like I said, thinking has changed in the last 10 years & it's probably true that e-fans' benefits are over non-clutch fans. I remember the 1st e-fan I fitted was because in stock form the engine was over-cooled & in normal use the e-fan very rarely cut in. The engine getting up to temp quicker & being kept at its optimum operating temp made for an impressive improvement in fuel consumption.

All I know is that my 1st XJ didn't need its mech fan & the stock e-fan was perfectly adequate but, of course, that was almost all to do with how & where it was used. However, I am now undecided about my current driver, sans mech fan shroud, as it sees much fewer highway miles & has a 2(soon to be 3)" lift & 32" MT's which are occasionally put to the test. Very different operating conditions, so whether it loses its mech fan foe a 2nd e-fan (as originally intended) or regains its shroud is a little uncertain at the moment.

 

You would understand if you had experienced the things I did with Stant Superstats before going Mopar

 

That's a lesson learnt, because I'd always fondly believed that Stant were a quality product (although "Superstat" puts me off) but actually what I'd understand is hard evidence that Mopar actually make thermostats or, indeed, any ancillary parts.

I did a bit of shopping round after I logged off yesterday which proved quite interesting. I can get a supposedly OEM one, for an outrageous, price from an outfit that turns out be a Chevy dealer in Alabama. For a 10th of that I have a choice of just about every reputable replacement parts brand in Europe. The so called Jeep 'stat is common to a whole raft of US, UK & Far East vehicles. I found one, in a Mopar pack, clearly marked Made in Israel, at a surprisingly reasonable price & even an NOS one, in a Mopar box bearing the legend "Made in the USA" for, if I remember correctly, a little less. I still remain unconvinced that it isn't just the packaging that's Mopar.

But, as I said, all academic because i have 2 spares, the one out of my parts '96 & the one from my '97 which was replaced for no other reason than we had the housing off at the time, neither of which I have any reason to believe aren't original.

 

I to did some research on mopar t stats. That stant name popped up and a motorad name.
not sure what i decided after my quick research.

Just make sure your **** works wether it's stamped mopar motard or motorad.

 

Motorad makes OEM stats and some aftermarket stats.

They are built to different specs.

 

Now that's sound advice, to which I can relate - but whoever checked their 'stat, unless they suspected it?

 

Interesting - & entirely believable, but I'm not sure what the specs for a 'stat are, apart from the temp.range, unless this refers to the materials &/or construction so their quality differs.