Recent content by Rockinrod

Fixed it last month...Warranty covered it all...

Took this in 2018...This aircraft I helped to work on before it was mounted. Photo taken at the American Legion Post in Baton Rouge, LA...Worked on the F-4 when in the air force way back...

Okay, I called my dealer and gave him the oil PN...It is "not" synthetic oil... Rodney

Like I said previously, I was ask back in 2017 if I wanted to use synthetic, I said no...So, I'm assuming they stayed with the same oil from day one.

I'll look at the paperwork. I save all the maintenance receipts...I'm on 5,000 mile oil change intervals. Doesn't say, all it says is 5W20 weight and the PN. I don't think it is though. I was ask this question after I purchased this Jeep, about what oil I wanted to use, and I said no to...

I agree..I may request this next oil change.

They've been putting 5W-20 in it

Been my experience owning a crap load of vehicles over the past 50 years never know.... No set answer of course. My intent was to find out if anyone here had ever had a failure prematurely...That was it...I got these two weeper holes here on the bottom with tiny trace of oil inside there. May be...

I just got this inspection kit today. Already been under it poking around. Looks pretty good so far..That's a stupid place to mount an oil filter, IMO...Should be on the side and bottom end, like everything I've had since 1969...

2017 which I purchased March 2017, it has 50,501 on it...Not even 4 years old yet. Just did the oil cooler last month and one 02 sensor, and drivers side valve cover gasket last week...Seems like a lot happening on it all of a sudden!

Can someone who has owned Jeep Wranglers for a long time, can you tell me on average, about how long these rear main seals normally last, give or take...We do 99% city driving, if that matters...I'm keeping an eye on something suspicious now down below near this two grommets near the oil pan...

Your talking about a solid round shaped ring, like a snake which goes around the top of the head, not the traditional flat gasket...What was the diameter? Guess the idea there was too compress it that so it spreads out...

Never seen those...

Then the cheapo rubber ones, then the 80's no gaskets, just a bead of silicon, blue...I remember some of the guys I used to work with driving Chevy Silverados, pulling oil pans and the trans pan and finding no gaskets...! Just sealant...

Just like the old 60's-70's cork gaskets...Snug them down run a few miles then check again, tighten ever so slightly...