Recent content by TimSA

Definitely some coolant leaking into the engine 😬👎

Thanks so much will investigate this!

Haha yeah but hotter than usual in a shorter time than usual. When you pop the hood you can feel it is very hot. Only drove it once to that level

Very hot actually! Although heat temp not ever showing hot so definitely oil related cooling

There is a few exhaust noises l, no rat a tat tat haha Haven't needed to top up coolant in months so that's fine.

No noise but does get hot!

It's a 2000 model

Lol yo shits worn out . Not what I wanna hear but you might be right! Not a lot of jeep experts over here for an engine rebuild, and getting parts is a headache

Good call checking the passage might be blocked. Checked everywhere else and there was little to no sludge, even on the sieve in the oil pump. Doesn't use much coolant, replaced the radiator about 1000miles ago..

Also the oil actually looked pretty good /clean when we changed the sump gasket and oil pump

Thanks Jerry, ya drop to 0 as per 2nd pic. That's taken engine on idling.

Yep the dash reading is consistent with the manual guage. I wasn't alarmed by 8psi more that it has noticeably dropped recently from what it used to sit at and it has a few times dropped eight down to 0 and check guages light comes on which is not perfectly acceptable :/

Thanks Lou, what I was dreading. It's driving fine and there is no noticeable noise, what other symptoms would point towards this?

I ordered one but it was the wrong size so I bought an external pressure reader. The unit is working as it has picked up the slight improvement with first thicker new oil, then an improvement with new pump and filter but eventually after it warms up it still drops right down.