lucky and not so lucky in the same day, picked up a GA core |
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lucky and not so lucky in the same day, picked up a GA core |
underthetire |
Nov 24 2009, 10:24 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 5,062 Joined: 7-October 08 From: Brentwood Member No.: 9,623 Region Association: Northern California |
Found a GA core on CL for 200 bucks, figured can't go wrong. Left work an hour early, got to the other side of the bay area about 4:45, got the engine loaded. Thought to myself this is going well. Hit the road to come back, should take an hour and a half tops. Get a couple streets away, some traffic, look down at my temp gauge on my Jeep, it was at 225! it has never gone over 200 in 229K miles. Turn the heater on, keeps climbing, and i'm stuck in traffic no where to go. Gets to 250, oh F**k. Turns out my fan died, 3 hours later sitting in traffic i get home.
But the new engine has the tins/flywheel/heat exchangers with it, so i think it was worth it. |
JRust |
Nov 24 2009, 10:32 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 6,307 Joined: 10-January 03 From: Corvallis Oregon Member No.: 129 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
Good score on the GA Case for sure. Especially with everything (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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Gint |
Nov 24 2009, 11:02 PM
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Mike Ginter Group: Admin Posts: 16,082 Joined: 26-December 02 From: Denver CO. Member No.: 20 Region Association: Rocky Mountains |
Straight six? Those AMC/Jeep sixes are pretty tough. Get the fan replaced and you probably still won't have any trouble.
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underthetire |
Nov 24 2009, 11:12 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 5,062 Joined: 7-October 08 From: Brentwood Member No.: 9,623 Region Association: Northern California |
Good. 4.0 I-6. Seems ok still. Probably change the oil and coolant at least. 1st problem i've had with it on the road since I got it, and it still made it home !
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