coolant

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    Coolant flush & emptying engine block

    I am attempting to change the coolant on my 2016 Jeep JKU and I am using distilled water to flush out the coolant system. However when I am trying to drain the coolant I am only getting about 1 gallon out (Radiator drain and Removing lower radiator hose). Is there anyway that I can drain out the...
  2. A

    Gunk in Radiator

    I noticed my jeep would rarely, but occasionally heat up a little over halfway on my gauge. I checked my rad fluid and noticed brown gunk on the rad cap. My headgasket should be more than fine at only 100k km, so a coolant flush and replace will be in order. 12' JK .6L. Just wondering if theirs...
  3. S

    Jeep Overheating

    EDITED TO ADD: after replacing the radiator cap, the engine light came on later that day while I was driving and the code it gave us was "Engine coolant not getting to operating temperature" My 2010 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Sahara with 92k miles began overheating a little over a month ago...
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    Post-inspection: Should I buy this second-hand Wrangler?

    Hi all, I m new to this forum. Thanks for letting me to post here. I am recently looking to buy a Wrangler, and I came across on JK 2014 Sahara 2-door version. I brought the car to the mechanic for a pre-sale check up. Here are the red flags that we found: 1. Signs of steaming of coolant, we...
  5. WhiteWillysWheeler76

    Coolant reservoir peanut butter

    Hello all. Just bought a beautiful '16 Willy's Wheeler Wrangler that has had a TON of upgrades added. Only had the truck home for a couple of days and decided to change the oil and coolant. Everything was fine until I took the plastic coolant back up reservoir out to clean it and found a handful...
  6. MBohn

    No coolant in overflow tank

    Hi, new member here. We just bought a used 2018 JK a few days ago. Should have checked this myself, but neglected to. She stopped at a friend's house on the way home, the husband who is a backyard mechanic checked the fluids and found no coolant in the overflow. The radiator had coolant, but...