Novak Conversions Jeep Wrangler TJ radiator

What did you do to your TJ today?

Sometimes just because you can doesn't mean you should haha

So, I should scrap my full coverage bumper plans? :(
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After three long weeks my fancy thermostat finally arrived. Crazy it was marked shipped an hour after I purchased it. I emailed them once with no reply. A day later I finally saw movement with the tracking. I hope this fixes my underheating issues because I don’t want to keep beating a dead horse lol

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What's special about this thermoset that makes it worth the wait?
 
Well I had a belt squeal removed it, the back of the idler pulley was.............. yep you guessed it........ packed with mud :mad: :mad: evidently when I was washing under the hood, I missed the back side of the pulley.

Quick trip to Orileys picked up a new pulley, installed and nice and quite again.

Here the pulley going on

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And here is the part number

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This is the correct number for the pulley,
 
Well I had a belt squeal removed it, the back of the idler pulley was.............. yep you guessed it........ packed with mud :mad: :mad: evidently when I was washing under the hood, I missed the back side of the pulley.

Quick trip to Orileys picked up a new pulley, installed and nice and quite again.

Here the pulley going on

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And here is the part number

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This is the correct number for the pulley,

So the bearing was trashed, I assume?
 
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Well I had a belt squeal removed it, the back of the idler pulley was.............. yep you guessed it........ packed with mud :mad: :mad: evidently when I was washing under the hood, I missed the back side of the pulley.

Quick trip to Orileys picked up a new pulley, installed and nice and quite again.

Here the pulley going on

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And here is the part number

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This is the correct number for the pulley,

You won't know if the new one is high quality until you dunk it in the mud hole to test it. ;)
 
Novak Conversions Jeep Wrangler TJ radiator