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Re: CJ-5 Heater Fan Upgrade Questions -
03-21-2007
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Bad news !!!!! The shop did a block check ($75) and there is exhaust getting into the cooling system. Not much, he's getting a hydrocarbon reading in my radiator/coolant. Mechanic says it's probably not the head gasket, but rather, a cracked head. That's gonna hurt. snip |
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Or stupid. ASE mechanics are probably the worst. Earle "FrankW" <fworm (AT) norpak (DOT) ca> wrote in message news:KtCdnfuAEb1NzJzbnZ2dnUVZ_qWvnZ2d (AT) magma (DOT) ca... Sorta like when my first Jeep (88YJ 4.2L)I had was running really rough. A mechanic said it needed a new head as a valve was toast. I had a friend mechanic look at it and he promptly unstuck the chock......problem solved. Some of those mechanics can be really dirty sometimes Mike Romain wrote: Hmm........... I think you are being fed a 'big' pile of BS! (There is this really old scam that happens when folks that know nothing come in with unknowns like yours. They put a squirt of oil in the radiator and show you the 'test' results, then sell you a new engine.) A slight hydrocarbon trace in a cooling system does not happen from a big bang and stall..... The head would have to be blown open or the headgasket blown right out to cause the Bang/stall (it is seriously hard to stall a 350!) and for the bang/stall to have caused that first, well..... I don't buy it for a second.... You just had a bunch of unknown arms and tools all over the rear of the engine around the firewall. I really would be suspecting a wire knocked loose on the coil or distributor. Just my $0.02, Mike 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's Canadian Off Road Trips Photos: Non members can still view! Jan/06 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=2115147590 (More Off Road album links at bottom of the view page) Anthony T wrote: Bad news !!!!! The shop did a block check ($75) and there is exhaust getting into the cooling system. Not much, he's getting a hydrocarbon reading in my radiator/coolant. Mechanic says it's probably not the head gasket, but rather, a cracked head. That's gonna hurt. snip |
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Hmm........... I think you are being fed a 'big' pile of BS! (There is this really old scam that happens when folks that know nothing come in with unknowns like yours. They put a squirt of oil in the radiator and show you the 'test' results, then sell you a new engine.) A slight hydrocarbon trace in a cooling system does not happen from a big bang and stall..... The head would have to be blown open or the headgasket blown right out to cause the Bang/stall (it is seriously hard to stall a 350!) and for the bang/stall to have caused that first, well..... I don't buy it for a second.... You just had a bunch of unknown arms and tools all over the rear of the engine around the firewall. I really would be suspecting a wire knocked loose on the coil or distributor. Just my $0.02, Mike 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's Canadian Off Road Trips Photos: Non members can still view! Jan/06 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=2115147590 (More Off Road album links at bottom of the view page) Anthony T wrote: Bad news !!!!! The shop did a block check ($75) and there is exhaust getting into the cooling system. Not much, he's getting a hydrocarbon reading in my radiator/coolant. Mechanic says it's probably not the head gasket, but rather, a cracked head. That's gonna hurt. snip |
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Sorta like when my first Jeep (88YJ 4.2L)I had was running really rough. A mechanic said it needed a new head as a valve was toast. I had a friend mechanic look at it and he promptly unstuck the chock......problem solved. Some of those mechanics can be really dirty sometimes Mike Romain wrote: Hmm........... I think you are being fed a 'big' pile of BS! (There is this really old scam that happens when folks that know nothing come in with unknowns like yours. They put a squirt of oil in the radiator and show you the 'test' results, then sell you a new engine.) A slight hydrocarbon trace in a cooling system does not happen from a big bang and stall..... The head would have to be blown open or the headgasket blown right out to cause the Bang/stall (it is seriously hard to stall a 350!) and for the bang/stall to have caused that first, well..... I don't buy it for a second.... You just had a bunch of unknown arms and tools all over the rear of the engine around the firewall. I really would be suspecting a wire knocked loose on the coil or distributor. Just my $0.02, Mike 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's Canadian Off Road Trips Photos: Non members can still view! Jan/06 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=2115147590 (More Off Road album links at bottom of the view page) Anthony T wrote: Bad news !!!!! The shop did a block check ($75) and there is exhaust getting into the cooling system. Not much, he's getting a hydrocarbon reading in my radiator/coolant. Mechanic says it's probably not the head gasket, but rather, a cracked head. That's gonna hurt. snip |
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Bad news !!!!! The shop did a block check ($75) and there is exhaust getting into the cooling system. Not much, he's getting a hydrocarbon reading in my radiator/coolant. Mechanic says it's probably not the head gasket, but rather, a cracked head. That's gonna hurt. |
I think I would do a long term pressure test of cooling sytem (a hour
or two) to see if there is a internal leak in it.
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Yup, my CJ7 had a 'blown' engine according to 'real' Chrysler mechanics when I bought it so I got it really cheap. It had new carb all new tune up and still blew tons of oil into the air filter while not idling for shit.... It was just a worn out gas tank vent..... (charcoal canister) Mike Earle Horton wrote: Or stupid. ASE mechanics are probably the worst. Earle "FrankW" <fworm (AT) norpak (DOT) ca> wrote in message news:KtCdnfuAEb1NzJzbnZ2dnUVZ_qWvnZ2d (AT) magma (DOT) ca... Sorta like when my first Jeep (88YJ 4.2L)I had was running really rough. A mechanic said it needed a new head as a valve was toast. I had a friend mechanic look at it and he promptly unstuck the chock......problem solved. Some of those mechanics can be really dirty sometimes Mike Romain wrote: Hmm........... I think you are being fed a 'big' pile of BS! (There is this really old scam that happens when folks that know nothing come in with unknowns like yours. They put a squirt of oil in the radiator and show you the 'test' results, then sell you a new engine.) A slight hydrocarbon trace in a cooling system does not happen from a big bang and stall..... The head would have to be blown open or the headgasket blown right out to cause the Bang/stall (it is seriously hard to stall a 350!) and for the bang/stall to have caused that first, well..... I don't buy it for a second.... You just had a bunch of unknown arms and tools all over the rear of the engine around the firewall. I really would be suspecting a wire knocked loose on the coil or distributor. Just my $0.02, Mike 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's Canadian Off Road Trips Photos: Non members can still view! Jan/06 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=2115147590 (More Off Road album links at bottom of the view page) Anthony T wrote: Bad news !!!!! The shop did a block check ($75) and there is exhaust getting into the cooling system. Not much, he's getting a hydrocarbon reading in my radiator/coolant. Mechanic says it's probably not the head gasket, but rather, a cracked head. That's gonna hurt. snip |
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I am a little disappointed that my comment didn't start a flame war, but I guess it's just common knowledge now, eh? Earle |
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OK, over educated professional student Earle, I know you don't have the patch, and smog license: http://www.garyzcarz.com/images/ase.jpg ;-) God Bless America, Bill 0|||||||0 mailto:LWHughes3rd (AT) aol (DOT) com http://www.billhughes.com/ "Earle Horton" <apodo (AT) gracioso (DOT) usa> wrote in message news:Xu-dncVVp_2uLJzbnZ2dnUVZ_silnZ2d (AT) comcast (DOT) com... I am a little disappointed that my comment didn't start a flame war, but I guess it's just common knowledge now, eh? Earle -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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That's what I'm talking about. We don't need no smog check where I live, because we have clean mountain air. (I think the pollution runs down hill, most of it.) We don't need no EPA license to work on AC, as long as we get paid in beer and not money. And we don't need no arm patch, because we don't have no inferiority complex to worry about. Earle |
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LOL Really, all our gases are heavier than our atmosphere, it's physically impossible for it to mix with it's Ozone, like the bleeding heart liberal whacko greenie Bore would like us to believe! That's why we put the gas hot water heater on a two foot platform off the floor, to separate any leaking gas from the pilot light. Why doesn't someone ask that idiot why Mar's polar caps are melting, too???????! Remember why the Vikings gave Greenland it's name? And the ascendant maps showing land in Antarctica before we figured that there was any under that ice. It's no where near as warm, just one thousand years ago, and the didn't have industrial smoke stacks nor cars! God Bless America, Bill 0|||||||0 mailto:LWHughes3rd (AT) aol (DOT) com http://www.billhughes.com/ "Earle Horton" <apodo (AT) gracioso (DOT) usa> wrote in message news:wpWdnSWLmLQdRpzbnZ2dnUVZ_smonZ2d (AT) comcast (DOT) com... That's what I'm talking about. We don't need no smog check where I live, because we have clean mountain air. (I think the pollution runs down hill, most of it.) We don't need no EPA license to work on AC, as long as we get paid in beer and not money. And we don't need no arm patch, because we don't have no inferiority complex to worry about. Earle -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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