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Ep. 29 I Didn't Expect This Many Head Gaskets to Blow · Jeep Talk Show

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  digital topics
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  It's the one
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  no
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  no
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  ON themselves
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  The road continues before the new transition onboard back we
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  must keep face and cloud as official
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  Well, good evening, boys and girls.
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  This is Mother Roy, and her first name is
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  Tony, but Mother Roy on XJtalk.com.
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  XJtalk.com is a site about Jeep
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  Cherokees, not the Grand.
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  We don't begrudge the
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  Grand, but we don't think it is.
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  I'm going to talk a little bit more
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  tonight about blown head gaskets and,
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  boy, how they're adding up.
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  But I think it will be nice to actually
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  have a resolution to some long-time
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  overheating problems.
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  At least that's what I'm thinking now.
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  Well, we'll find out more about what I'm
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  thinking here in a minute.
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  So, again, my name is
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  Tony Mutteroy on XJtalk.com.
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  And this little show is, or podcast, is
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  put on to help promote
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  the website, XJtalk.com.
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  And I think it's helping.
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  We've got some new members, and some of
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  them say they've joined because of
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  listening to the show.
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  I don't think they joined so they could
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  come in and criticize me,
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  but, you know, who knows?
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  I don't care as long as they join.
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  So I'm going to talk a little bit tonight
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  about some of the further problems I'm
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  having with vehicles.
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  They're starting to mount up.
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  You would think that I
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  have a curse of some sort.
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  I see we've got a few
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  people here in the chat room.
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  Dalton, is everything sounding okay?
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  Because it looks like the little banners
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  that you people on the podcast can't see,
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  the little banners that are right across
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  the live video stream
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  are moving really slow.
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  I don't know if it's just on my end or if
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  it's actually very slow going out.
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  Okay, sounds good.
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  I guess that's all that really matters is
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  everything sounds fine.
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  It just doesn't
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  normally act up like that.
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  You know, maybe on top of all the vehicle
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  problems I'm having,
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  I'll have the computer crash here in the
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  middle of the show,
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  which will be a first time.
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  Anyway, negative thoughts.
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  So I'll try not to have
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  those, and maybe that won't happen.
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  So you guys that have been listening
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  probably recall that my wife's Mustang,
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  her 3.8 liter V6, manifested a blown head
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  gasket, cracked head, warped head,
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  or something because there's a pretty
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  good stream of coolant
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  coming out of the exhaust.
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  So to help combat that issue, I didn't
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  want her to be without a vehicle,
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  and I ran across a pretty good
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  opportunity to get a 1999 Jeep Cherokee,
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  which I did, thought I got
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  a really good deal on it.
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  And I went to one of the other members'
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  shop up in Cleveland, Texas last weekend,
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  and boy, he was elbows and a** getting
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  the air conditioner fixed on it.
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  And it turned out to be not only a
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  problem with the clutch
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  on the air conditioner,
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  but on the air conditioner compressor, it
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  also turned out to be a bad evaporator.
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  And if you're not familiar, the
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  evaporator is located
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  between the dash and the firewall.
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  So Matt, the XJTalk member and also
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  administrator on XJTalk.com,
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  busted out the
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  screwdrivers and wrenches and sockets,
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  and he pulled the dash out of a donor
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  vehicle that he had.
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  And we got the
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  evaporator out of that vehicle,
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  and then he busted out
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  the dash out of the 99.
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  And at least he didn't have to provide
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  O-rings and R134A and
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  all the other goodies.
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  You know, at least I had that stuff.
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  So within it was a full day deal.
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  I guess I got there around 930 or so, and
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  it was 530 or 6 before we were done.
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  And when I say "we," I mean, you know,
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  there was four guys there,
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  but there was only one
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  working. That was Matt.
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  And I was pretty happy.
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  Drove back home with AC on, and it was
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  running really well.
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  Got home just in time for my wife to be
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  able to use her vehicle
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  to drive out to a function.
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  And on her way back, she called me
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  because one of the
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  gauges had gone to zero,
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  well, in this case, 9 volts, but 9 is as
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  low as it can go on the voltmeter.
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  And she had gotten the
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  warning light and tone.
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  And I figured, okay, well, the Jeep was
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  sitting up a little
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  while before we got it,
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  so it would be understandable if the
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  alternator had gone out.
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  And, you know, not lucky,
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  but just a little bit of time.
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  It's about $110, I guess.
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  A little bit of my
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  time to change that out.
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  I wasn't happy, but not a major deal.
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  So she goes a little further, and then
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  she says that the engine's
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  having a hard time running.
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  And I'm figuring the battery got low.
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  I was a little surprised
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  that it happened that quick.
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  I figured the battery had gotten a little
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  low, and she was trying to pull over,
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  and I asked her where she was, and she
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  wasn't three, four miles from the house.
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  So I grabbed the jumper cables and some
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  tools in case they had thrown the belt,
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  even though they said
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  the belt was not thrown,
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  and picked up an extra belt
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  that I had, which was nice,
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  because that's one of the reasons why I
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  wanted to get another Cherokee,
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  because I have a lot of parts, and I know
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  how to work on my 98,
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  so the 99 should be virtually identical.
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  So I got over there, and I
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  was able to start the vehicle.
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  And just to make it I'll try to make a
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  long story shorter,
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  which it was a long story.
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  I mean, this was
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  about 11 o'clock at night,
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  and I think we wound up
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  getting home by about 2.30.
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  We actually came home
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  several times to get things.
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  One of the I wouldn't it
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  seemed like it was hot,
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  and I didn't understand why it was hot,
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  why the engine was hot.
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  And, you know, there was no coolant
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  anywhere, you know,
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  nothing was wet, nothing.
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  Anyway, long story short, the lower
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  radiator hose had burst.
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  There was a nice big tear
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  in it, and I found that out
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  whenever I started pouring
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  some water in the radiator,
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  and it was coming out as
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  fast as I was putting it in.
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  And by that time, I had
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  already read it a while,
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  not knowing that it
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  didn't have any coolant in it.
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  Well, I think I got a blown head gasket.
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  It's either a blown head
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  gasket or a warped head,
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  or a blown head gasket
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  due to a warped head.
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  And the interesting thing is, is that the
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  98 has had a heat creep problem
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  on the highway for quite a long time,
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  and it manifests itself a
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  lot like what the 99 is doing.
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  So I think that there is a possibility,
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  and I've thought about this for a while,
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  but I just didn't think that
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  it would be, it was a reality,
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  because it is not, it's
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  not a very severe problem.
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  But I think that there's a real
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  likelihood that the 98
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  also has a slight exhaust leak
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  somewhere on the head, and I don't think
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  it's as bad as what it is on the 99.
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  But I'm seeing the same
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  symptoms on both of them now.
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  And what makes it even more fun is, as I
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  previously mentioned
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  just a few minutes ago,
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  the Mustang definitely has a
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  cracked or blown head gasket.
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  So I got to find a machine shop.
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  You know, I've built engines,
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  I've built two engines before,
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  but that was when I was much younger.
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  And I don't know, maybe I just wasn't as
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  concerned about failure,
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  because it was just something I did, and
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  it all worked out just fine.
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  So I'm actually kind of relieved, because
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  if this is the problem with the 98,
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  then all this effort and time that I've
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  put into the 98 trying to get
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  this heat creep problem fixed
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  will be solved.
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  And it potentially could be solved for
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  less money than what I've spent on,
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  actually, about the same amount of money
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  that I've spent on a three-core radiator,
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  because it looks like it'll cost between
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  $50 and $100 to have the
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  head milled, if necessary,
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  which it may not be necessary on the 98,
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  but probably will be necessary on the 99,
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  because that's also a pretty good stream
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  of bubbles, which by the way,
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  I posted up on XJTalk a video
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  of the bubbles I saw
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  coming out of the radiator.
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  Now, the interesting thing about this is
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  the Mustang, the 96 Mustang,
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  the 98 Cherokee with the 4.0 liter, and
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  the 99 Cherokee with the 4.0 liter,
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  may all, two of them, I feel pretty
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  confident, have head gasket leaks.
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  None of them, none of them, show any
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  indication of water in the
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  oil or coolant in the oil
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  or chocolate in the peanut butter.
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  Some of you guys don't get that.
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  That's an old Reese's
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  chocolate peanut butter commercial.
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  "Hey, you got
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  chocolate in my peanut butter.
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  Hey, you got peanut
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  butter in my chocolate."
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  And then they enjoy and
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  have mad passionate sex.
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  I'm sorry, that's a different version.
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  So anyway, hopefully, for $180 or the
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  Velcro gasket from
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  O'Rally's is $79.99 or whatever,
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  and that's the head gasket, the intake
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  gasket, and some
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  other odds and ends there,
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  valve cover gasket as well.
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  So, you know, I don't like the idea of
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  doing something that's
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  going to mess things up,
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  but it's not like I
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  haven't done this before.
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  I'm just a little
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  nervous about doing it again.
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  It's just so critical, monetarily, it's
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  so critical for it to go right.
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  So, I'm a little nervous about that
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  aspect of it, but I know I'm
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  capable of doing this stuff.
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  I just the only thing that I need to
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  check into obviously, I need to get the
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  field service manual
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  so I can check and see exactly what it
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  says about the head bolts,
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  which I think it's okay, you can reuse
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  the head bolts once.
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  And probably to be safe, and
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  depending on what it costs,
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  I'll probably get some head
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  bolts for the $99 and the $98.
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  The thing I don't know right now is
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  whether I should go
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  ahead and spend the money
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  on an exhaust gas kit or not.
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  I saw one on Amazon.com.
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  Well, it's several places on the
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  internet, and it's like $50 for the kit.
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  And I hate to spend $50 on something, but
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  then again, you know,
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  it potentially could save me a lot of
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  work and a lot of money.
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  So, yeah, I guess I'll do that.
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  Well, we've got a few more
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  people here in the chat room.
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  Let's see what they think.
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  Has anybody seen the video that I just
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  put up on YouTube and on XJTalk
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  about maybe an hour ago?
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  They're probably not
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  even listening to me.
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  I see they're talking to each other.
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  Let's see, there's
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  Dalton, Torque1257, VW4Y,
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  and I thought there
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  was somebody else there.
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  Nope, I guess it's
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  those four and two guests.
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  So, by the way, if you have found XJTalk
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  I think it's just YouTube slash XJTalk.
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  I'd be happy to do that too.
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  So anyway, oh, one other
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  I've been listening to a podcast that
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  It doesn't cost you anything different.
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  You still get the same
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  So we looked that up, and
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  So if you want to make a purchase at
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  And again, the price to you is the same,
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  like selling it for them.
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  And it's a pretty good
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  can just retire and
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  quit doing these shows.
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  No, seriously, we would appreciate it if
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  I've yet to see we've only been doing
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  this for a few days,
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  so I've yet to see a purchase go through.
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  We've had several clicks, but nobody's
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  purchased anything with Amazon yet.
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  So I'm curious to see exactly how the
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  whole process will work.
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  So even if you're just
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  planning on buying a CD,
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  or I just purchased a B&M transmission
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  gauge in an effort to diagnose the heat
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  creep problem with my 98,
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  and that's a great
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  place to get these things.
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  So they have all kinds of things there
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  that you can purchase through Amazon.com.
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  Okay, so anyway, it looks like I'm going
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  to be doing a head job,
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  and I think while I was talking here,
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  I've pretty much made up
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  my mind to spend the $55,
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  or whatever it is, to get the exhaust gas
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  kit so I can test the 99, the 98,
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  and I don't think I really need to test
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  the Mustang, but if I got it, I'll
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  probably do that as well.
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  So, woe is me, but the nice thing is, at
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  least on the 99, it's not lifted.
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  There's plenty of room in the engine bay
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  to get to that head,
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  and it'll be a learning experience.
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  And like most things, once I've done it
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  once, I feel a lot more
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  confident about how things go
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  and how much time it's going
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  to take, and so on and so forth.
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  And then it'll be like nothing.
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  I'll be very, very sad once I see how
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  simple it really was and
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  how much of a success it was
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  that I didn't go ahead and
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  do that to the 98 years ago.
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  Because I've been having this heat creep
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  problem ever since I lifted and put
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  bigger wheels and tires on the 98.
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  So it could be that there's a very small
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  head gasket leak on the 4.0 on my 98,
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  and then with the addition of the tires
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  and wheels and difference in airflow,
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  it's just a little too much for it to be
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  able to handle, compensate for that leak,
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  that small leak is in there,
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  but it has to be a small one.
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  When you look at the video
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  that I put up on xjtalk.com,
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  you will probably see what I fear is too
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  many bubbles coming out of the radiator.
• 19:44
  Now, I will say that I took that video
• 19:49
  after I had poured some
• 19:51
  coolant in the radiator.
• 19:53
  I was curious to see how low it was, and
• 19:57
  so I poured some in there,
• 19:59
  but I did give it a
• 19:59
  while to stop bubbling.
• 20:02
  The radiator fill neck
• 20:06
  kind of has a 90-degree angle,
• 20:08
  and it's possible for some air to get
• 20:11
  trapped in there, and it may take a
• 20:12
  little bit for it to come out.
• 20:14
  But I don't think it should have I don't
• 20:19
  think that I should be going that long.
• 20:22
  I was just laughing because 4.3LxJ has
• 20:26
  responded to my video post,
• 20:29
  and he says, "Blown head gasket, Tony.
• 20:32
  Don't waste the money for a sniffer."
• 20:34
  So, you know, I guess I was kind of
• 20:36
  hoping that somebody would say,
• 20:37
  "No, it's not that. It's the hen way."
• 20:40
  And I'd say, "What's a hen way?"
• 20:41
  And they'd say, "Three or four pounds."
• 20:42
  We'd all laugh, and then I'd go drive the
• 20:44
  Jeep and not worry
• 20:45
  about a blown head gasket.
• 20:47
  So, it looks like I'll be doing the head
• 20:50
  gasket on the new TUS99.
• 20:53
  I will say that before we had the blown
• 20:56
  lower radiator hose,
• 20:58
  boy, the thing the radiator or I'm sure
• 21:02
  sorry, the coolant
• 21:03
  temperature ran almost the line prior,
• 21:06
  the little hash mark prior to the 210.
• 21:09
  It would gradually heat up to the 210,
• 21:11
  but once it got there, it would stay.
• 21:14
  And it is 70 miles from Matt's shop up in
• 21:18
  Cleveland to here where I live in Cady.
• 21:22
  And I drove that entire way 80, 85 miles
• 21:25
  an hour, air conditioner blaring, and it
• 21:31
  never got above the 210.
• 21:33
  So, that was very nice.
• 21:35
  And I was hoping that I would learn about
• 21:39
  how the 99 worked would
• 21:43
  help me diagnose the 98.
• 21:45
  But I wasn't hoping that I would learn
• 21:47
  that that I would be able to do that
• 21:50
  diagnosis by having
• 21:52
  two blown head gaskets,
• 21:53
  which, like I said, I fear that I have
• 21:55
  that now, actually three,
• 21:56
  if you conclude the Mustang.
• 21:58
  But at least I'm very
• 21:59
  lucky because I have tools.
• 22:00
  I have friends that
• 22:01
  know how to do this stuff.
• 22:03
  I'm smart enough to be able to read, and
• 22:05
  I'm mechanically inclined,
• 22:07
  so I don't have to spend the same $950
• 22:12
  that I spent whenever I had the problem
• 22:15
  with the water pump
• 22:17
  that went out on the 98,
• 22:18
  just about two years after we bought it,
• 22:21
  had a problem with it getting hot on the
• 22:24
  highway, pulled over, and let it cool
• 22:27
  off, nursed at home.
• 22:30
  But apparently that was too much.
• 22:32
  I took it to the shop.
• 22:33
  I was working, making a good living at
• 22:35
  that time, and I really
• 22:36
  didn't want to fix it myself.
• 22:38
  So I took it to the shop.
• 22:39
  They said, "Oh, yeah,
• 22:39
  here's your problem.
• 22:41
  It's the water pump."
• 22:42
  They shoved me in the water pump, and
• 22:43
  there was like it looked like somebody
• 22:46
  had been eating on the fins of the pump,
• 22:48
  the little blades inside the propeller
• 22:50
  that's inside that water
• 22:52
  pump, that factory water pump.
• 22:53
  It was plastic, and
• 22:55
  it had all eaten away.
• 22:57
  So it was kind of hard
• 22:58
  for it to pump the coolant.
• 23:01
  And they said, "Yeah, and we think you
• 23:04
  may have warped the head, and the only
• 23:06
  way to find that out
• 23:08
  is to take the head off,
• 23:09
  send it to a shop, and they'll check it,
• 23:12
  and they'll mill it if necessary."
• 23:14
  So I said, "How much is that?"
• 23:15
  And put both hands on my the cover of my
• 23:20
  opening in the rear, and it still hurt.
• 23:23
  So anyway, it was a total of $950.
• 23:28
  And the plastic tank on the radiator one
• 23:32
  of the plastic tanks on the radiator
• 23:34
  failed about two months after that.
• 23:35
  So I had that replaced with a 2-core
• 23:38
  all-metal radiator, which
• 23:40
  was another $225, I believe.
• 23:42
  And that was when it was about three
• 23:44
  years old, two to three years old.
• 23:46
  So and I guess after that, I probably
• 23:48
  replaced the water pump a
• 23:50
  total of about five times.
• 23:51
  And this fifth time was with the flow
• 23:55
  cooler high volume is it high volume,
• 23:59
  high flow water pump?
• 24:01
  And I guess that's been
• 24:03
  on there a couple of years.
• 24:05
  And of course the high flow water pump,
• 24:06
  the high flow thermostat, the
• 24:08
  high flow thermostat housing,
• 24:11
  the heavy duty Grand Cherokee fan clutch,
• 24:15
  the CFS 3-core all-metal radiator
• 24:19
  all those things were put on there to try
• 24:21
  to solve the heat creep problem that I
• 24:24
  have on the highway.
• 24:25
  Actually, initially what they were there
• 24:27
  for was to try to get the
• 24:31
  engine from overheating.
• 24:32
  Because once it gets to that first hash
• 24:35
  mark past 210, it can,
• 24:37
  within an instant, rocket
• 24:40
  I mean, literally, you could watch it go
• 24:41
  from that first hash mark past 210
• 24:44
  all the way over to the hash mark that is
• 24:46
  at the edge of the red.
• 24:48
  And I've been fighting and fighting over
• 24:52
  the past probably three years now,
• 24:54
  trying to get the 98 coolant temperature
• 24:57
  to stay at that magical 210.
• 24:59
  Actually, just a hair below the 210.
• 25:02
  So with this information on the 99, I
• 25:06
  probably have my answer.
• 25:08
  And unfortunately, it won't be fixing one
• 25:11
  head gasket. It'll be fixing two.
• 25:13
  The bright side is that it's
• 25:15
  a relatively easy thing to do.
• 25:17
  And although Matt told me you have a
• 25:21
  50-50 chance of having problems with the
• 25:24
  bottom end of an engine,
• 25:26
  anytime you change do the head work.
• 25:30
  And I don't know why that is, but I think
• 25:32
  that's something that his dad found out
• 25:35
  from years of experience.
• 25:38
  So that makes me nervous.
• 25:41
  Because if you take two Jeeps and you do
• 25:43
  the heads on both of them and you get a
• 25:45
  50-50 chance both times,
• 25:47
  well, that means you got a 100% chance of
• 25:48
  one of the engines failing.
• 25:50
  But oh well. You do the best you can do
• 25:54
  and hope for the best.
• 25:56
  So anyway, if I didn't mention at the
• 25:59
  start, I meant to it's up on the screen.
• 26:01
  I don't know if it's
• 26:01
  scrolling properly or not.
• 26:03
  But if anybody would like to call in, you
• 26:06
  can call in on our landline
• 26:10
  number, which is 530-675-4102.
• 26:15
  530-675-4102. It doesn't matter if you
• 26:19
  have anything to talk about.
• 26:21
  You can just call and say hi.
• 26:22
  And I don't know, ask some questions.
• 26:25
  Talk about blown head gaskets. Just keep
• 26:28
  it automotive related.
• 26:31
  And that's just a joke. You can talk
• 26:32
  about whatever you like.
• 26:33
  Or you can call on Skype. Skype is better
• 26:36
  because of the sound
• 26:36
  quality and it's free.
• 26:39
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• 26:41
  unlimited long distance and the 530 is
• 26:44
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• 26:45
  just put your number up in
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• 26:48
  Because I can call anywhere in the
• 26:50
  continental United States for the same
• 26:52
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• 26:54
  But if you want to call via Skype, and
• 26:56
  that's from anywhere in the world, you
• 26:59
  can call xjtalk.com.
• 27:01
  That's a lot easier to remember than a
• 27:03
  phone number, isn't it?
• 27:04
  xjtalk.com. So I don't even think you
• 27:06
  have to put me on your contacts.
• 27:10
  I think you can just type
• 27:11
  that in and give me a call.
• 27:13
  If you'd like to call, you'd like to be
• 27:14
  on the show. We'll get you on the show.
• 27:16
  Oh, if you'd like to make a comment or
• 27:20
  feedback that would be played
• 27:22
  on the show at a later time,
• 27:24
  you can call that same number when we're
• 27:26
  not using it for the show.
• 27:28
  And you'll get a voicemail that you can
• 27:30
  leave your comment, message, or whatever.
• 27:34
  And I'll just say that number again real
• 27:36
  quick. 530-675-4102.
• 27:40
  So what's up in the chat
• 27:43
  room? What do you guys think?
• 27:44
  I mean, 4.3LxJ says, "Blown head gasket."
• 27:48
  I think I'm going to go ahead and get the
• 27:49
  sniffer, the chemical sniffer.
• 27:51
  It's not one of those fancy ones that you
• 27:54
  can... I don't know.
• 27:55
  I'm assuming there's an
• 27:56
  electronic one that you can use.
• 28:00
  But I figure that one's pretty expensive.
• 28:03
  And the kit that I saw, which is just
• 28:06
  like a glass tube that
• 28:08
  you suck up the coolant in,
• 28:11
  and there's some chemical in there and it
• 28:13
  changes colors if
• 28:14
  there's exhaust gases in there.
• 28:17
  Then I think... Oh, see you
• 28:19
  later Dalton. Dalton's leaving.
• 28:23
  Then that one's good for like 16 tests.
• 28:25
  So I figure that once it gets out that I
• 28:29
  have one of those testers,
• 28:30
  people will come over here
• 28:32
  and want me to test their coolant for
• 28:34
  exhaust gases, and I'll
• 28:36
  charge them like $25 a test.
• 28:38
  And then pretty soon, the kit will pay
• 28:40
  for itself. So that'll work out well.
• 28:43
  Yeah, that's right. Dalton... We were
• 28:46
  going to get Dalton on
• 28:47
  to talk about his roof...
• 28:50
  I want to call it a roof rack. What is
• 28:51
  it? A cargo rack that he
• 28:54
  built out of electrical conduit.
• 28:56
  It turned out really, really nice.
• 28:58
  And a $300 or $400 roof rack,
• 29:02
  cargo rack, he built for $100.
• 29:06
  So that worked out really well. And we
• 29:08
  just haven't... Yeah, one of these days.
• 29:11
  You need to remind me before the show,
• 29:13
  and we'll get you on first thing,
• 29:15
  and then we can get you on to talk about
• 29:17
  it, and then you can go crawl in bed.
• 29:20
  So let's see, it's about... I guess it's
• 29:23
  like 9.30 over there
• 29:24
  for you, isn't it, Dalton?
• 29:26
  So that's still a little early for me,
• 29:28
  but sometimes I take a...
• 29:31
  Yeah, let's try to do it next week.
• 29:33
  Sometimes I try to take a nap in the
• 29:35
  evening, and then I'm up really late
• 29:36
  talking to Wayne in New Zealand.
• 29:38
  I wish we could get Wayne on here.
• 29:41
  I was going to talk to Wayne about how
• 29:44
  things were going in Christchurch,
• 29:45
  because it had been a
• 29:46
  while since the last big quake,
• 29:48
  and it was my feeling that things were
• 29:51
  kind of settling down up there,
• 29:52
  which I was really happy to hear. They've
• 29:54
  really gone through a lot in Christchurch
• 29:56
  with the quakes and the aftershocks.
• 29:59
  And of course that whole Christchurch
• 30:02
  story was eclipsed by the
• 30:05
  massive earthquake in Japan
• 30:08
  and then followed up by that really bad
• 30:09
  tsunami, which
• 30:10
  Christchurch didn't have to deal with,
• 30:12
  but the tsunami. But they really, really
• 30:17
  lost a bunch of
• 30:19
  buildings and a lot of life,
• 30:22
  and there's a lot of people in
• 30:23
  Christchurch that
• 30:24
  don't have a place to live.
• 30:25
  Wayne was lucky enough to have his house
• 30:29
  standing, although it
• 30:30
  was worse for the wear.
• 30:32
  Well, the plan was to get on Skype and
• 30:36
  touch base with him
• 30:37
  and see how he was doing,
• 30:37
  so the people in the audience of the
• 30:40
  podcast could get an update,
• 30:42
  because we had an interview with him just
• 30:44
  about a week after
• 30:46
  their big earthquake there.
• 30:48
  So just kind of touch base
• 30:49
  and see how things were going.
• 30:51
  And you know, lo and behold, I had
• 30:53
  another, what was it, 6.3 a few days ago,
• 30:56
  and he now can see light coming into his
• 31:01
  wall, and there's no window there,
• 31:04
  at least no window that
• 31:05
  was designed to be there.
• 31:07
  And if I was looking at a picture that it
• 31:10
  was actually a still from
• 31:11
  a video that he had posted,
• 31:13
  if that was his house that was in that
• 31:16
  video, it looks like the wall to his
• 31:19
  house is leaning out towards the top.
• 31:22
  So there's a big gap up close to the top
• 31:25
  of the wall that narrows
• 31:26
  as it gets further down.
• 31:28
  I just wish it would stop shaking over
• 31:29
  there. I know they do.
• 31:32
  He has his wife, his son, I think his
• 31:35
  son's like 16, and you
• 31:37
  know, what can you do?
• 31:39
  All you can do is keep going and hope
• 31:43
  that when the ground shakes, it's not
• 31:45
  going to shake for
• 31:45
  very long or very hard.
• 31:47
  And of course now, from a post he put up,
• 31:50
  they're calling for a 30% chance of
• 31:54
  something bigger than a
• 31:55
  6.0 over the next year.
• 31:58
  So they have to wait a year.
• 32:00
  And then if it doesn't happen over the
• 32:02
  next year, I think it
• 32:04
  drops to like 23% chance.
• 32:06
  So I think these are credible
• 32:09
  seismologists that are coming up with
• 32:10
  these predictions and not the moon guy
• 32:12
  that was claiming that he could pick when
• 32:15
  the earthquake was going to be because of
• 32:17
  the rotation and distance
• 32:20
  from the moon to the earth.
• 32:22
  So, you know, that's a bit disturbing.
• 32:25
  How do you put your life back together?
• 32:26
  How do you put your home back together
• 32:30
  when you don't know when the ground is
• 32:32
  going to stop shaking?
• 32:33
  And it's like it's a daily thing that
• 32:35
  gets some sort of
• 32:36
  trimmer multiple times a day.
• 32:39
  It was really bad a month or so ago.
• 32:42
  And then again, my understanding was that
• 32:44
  it was trailing off.
• 32:45
  So I was kind of hoping it was going to
• 32:46
  go back to that same stable nature that
• 32:50
  Wayne and his 40-some-odd years of living
• 32:52
  there had come to expect because this
• 32:55
  isn't a normal thing for New Zealand, at
• 32:57
  least not over the last 40 years or so.
• 33:00
  So really feel for them and all the stuff
• 33:03
  that they have to go through.
• 33:04
  It's bad enough just day-to-day living.
• 33:09
  What are you going to
• 33:10
  do for paying for gas?
• 33:12
  What are you going to
• 33:12
  do because of taxes?
• 33:13
  What happens about your job and the
• 33:16
  global economy and so on and so forth?
• 33:18
  And then this whole thing
• 33:19
  is eclipsed by disaster.
• 33:23
  And you have some stability in your life.
• 33:27
  There's things that you don't have any
• 33:29
  control over, but one of them shouldn't
• 33:31
  be having to worry about if the ground is
• 33:33
  going to shake you to death.
• 33:35
  There was a lot of people killed that the
• 33:37
  big quake they had a few months back.
• 33:39
  They got really lucky on that the first
• 33:41
  big quake because nobody died.
• 33:43
  Of course, I think it was like five
• 33:44
  o'clock in the morning
• 33:45
  their time when it happened.
• 33:47
  But when the next big one came, I think
• 33:50
  it was around noon and there was people
• 33:52
  in office buildings.
• 33:53
  And luckily, Wayne's wife was one of
• 33:56
  those people working in an office
• 33:58
  building, but luckily
• 33:59
  she was not injured.
• 34:01
  And I don't remember the episode, the
• 34:05
  show episode, it was
• 34:06
  one of the first ones.
• 34:07
  If you look in the show notes on the
• 34:09
  podcast, you can find
• 34:11
  out which one it is.
• 34:12
  But Wayne had to actually
• 34:14
  make use of his Jeep Cherokee.
• 34:16
  Although it's green in right-hand drive,
• 34:19
  it still is a Jeep Cherokee, and he made
• 34:22
  use of that during that disaster.
• 34:23
  He actually went over and got his
• 34:26
  mother-in-law and he said in his own
• 34:29
  words, he wouldn't have made it if he
• 34:30
  hadn't had his Jeep
• 34:33
  set up the way it was.
• 34:34
  And he had a winch on the front that he
• 34:37
  did not have to use, but I'm sure he felt
• 34:39
  much better about having that winch.
• 34:41
  And I think he says
• 34:42
  that in the interview.
• 34:44
  And I encourage you to go
• 34:44
  back and listen to that.
• 34:45
  It was a very interesting interview, a
• 34:48
  firsthand account of what it was like to
• 34:53
  live in Christchurch during that
• 34:55
  earthquake and to drive a Jeep around
• 34:59
  through the aftermath.
• 35:00
  So no calls.
• 35:01
  I guess everybody is too timid.
• 35:03
  I do encourage you, though, it would
• 35:05
  really, really help me out if you guys
• 35:09
  would at least call in to the voicemail
• 35:14
  number and leave some messages, even if
• 35:16
  you just want to say
• 35:17
  how much you like XJ Talk.
• 35:19
  A little promo.
• 35:20
  That's fine.
• 35:21
  Anything that I could
• 35:22
  use to play on the show.
• 35:24
  Questions, comments, upcoming events, you
• 35:28
  know, please feel free to use it.
• 35:30
  It's 530-675-4102.
• 35:36
  And we've been getting quite a few
• 35:42
  members, which is always good to see.
• 35:47
  And there's even more people using chat
• 35:49
  box now, which is fun.
• 35:51
  I'm seeing more posts, which I was
• 35:53
  getting a little concerned about because
• 35:55
  we saw a little slump around, I guess,
• 35:59
  around May that's been picking up here in
• 36:02
  June, which actually with all the travel
• 36:05
  and stuff that people do during the
• 36:08
  summertime, I thought it
• 36:09
  might trail off even more.
• 36:11
  But with gas prices being what they are
• 36:13
  and the economy being what it is, maybe
• 36:17
  people aren't traveling as much.
• 36:18
  Maybe people are sitting at home and
• 36:21
  having their fun on the Internet.
• 36:23
  And I sure hope that
• 36:24
  part of that fun is XJ Talk.
• 36:26
  And I think it is.
• 36:28
  We've got some really
• 36:29
  good people on there.
• 36:30
  And one of the things I don't mention,
• 36:33
  probably should mention more of, is the
• 36:36
  thing that I think is the biggest
• 36:38
  difference between XJ Talk, Jeep website,
• 36:41
  and the other Jeep websites that are out
• 36:43
  there is that we pretty
• 36:45
  much just have one rule.
• 36:46
  And that rule is you need to
• 36:49
  be nice to the other members.
• 36:51
  You need to be nice to the people that
• 36:52
  are posting questions that might get
• 36:55
  flamed on other sites.
• 36:58
  That's our one major rule.
• 37:01
  And, you know, there's always rules, but
• 37:03
  that's the one that we talk about.
• 37:05
  That's the one that we
• 37:06
  really want people to understand.
• 37:07
  When somebody comes onto the site and
• 37:09
  they ask a question, I don't care how
• 37:12
  stupid you think it is.
• 37:14
  If it upsets you that
• 37:15
  bad, don't respond to it.
• 37:17
  Just ignore it.
• 37:18
  Because those people don't understand.
• 37:22
  That's why they're asking.
• 37:24
  And they need help.
• 37:25
  Just like we all did at some point.
• 37:27
  In anything, you know, there was always
• 37:29
  times that we didn't know something and
• 37:31
  we had to ask a dumb question.
• 37:33
  And it's important that people understand
• 37:36
  that they can ask those questions and
• 37:38
  they can do it on XJTalk.com.
• 37:41
  It was only like three or four years ago
• 37:44
  that I started really
• 37:45
  learning about the Jeep Cherokee.
• 37:47
  I've had this 98 since 98.
• 37:50
  But as far as off-road and how it goes
• 37:54
  together mechanically, I only started
• 37:56
  really learning about that whenever I
• 37:58
  started doing repairs to it.
• 38:01
  So a lot of the questions I had were very
• 38:05
  new and basic questions
• 38:06
  about how the Jeep goes together.
• 38:09
  And now I've got a pretty good idea.
• 38:11
  I mean, there's still
• 38:11
  things I don't know.
• 38:12
  And luckily, I have a website that I can
• 38:15
  go to and ask questions
• 38:16
  without the fear of being ridiculed.
• 38:18
  Okay, well, they poke fun at me.
• 38:20
  But it's a friendly kind of poke.
• 38:23
  It's not, "Did you search?
• 38:26
  Did you search for that answer?"
• 38:29
  We've answered that question 49 times.
• 38:31
  And I don't understand that.
• 38:34
  I mean, I understand people get
• 38:36
  frustrated, but they get frustrated by
• 38:38
  simple questions that are asked over and
• 38:40
  over and over and over again.
• 38:42
  But the thing I don't understand is why
• 38:44
  they feel like they have to post their
• 38:46
  frustration to this person that obviously
• 38:49
  doesn't know the answer.
• 38:51
  Just ignore them.
• 38:52
  Go to another post that is
• 38:55
  worthy of your time and effort.
• 38:59
  So that's the thing I could never
• 39:01
  understand about
• 39:01
  these other Jeep websites.
• 39:03
  And it may be that they're just really,
• 39:04
  really big, and they
• 39:06
  don't have enough moderators.
• 39:07
  They don't have the will to
• 39:11
  tell people, "Don't do that.
• 39:14
  We don't want to upset people.
• 39:17
  We don't want to upset the members.
• 39:18
  We want to help the members."
• 39:20
  And that's what we've been
• 39:21
  trying to do on xjtalk.com.
• 39:23
  And I hear over and over and over again
• 39:25
  that people notice this.
• 39:27
  It's not something we talk a lot about.
• 39:29
  I've probably talked more about it now
• 39:30
  than what I have in the
• 39:33
  two years of the site.
• 39:34
  So it just really makes me feel good that
• 39:37
  everybody's gotten on board with this.
• 39:39
  In fact, I think we've only banned one
• 39:42
  person in the two years that we've been
• 39:45
  in operation, almost
• 39:48
  two and a half years.
• 39:49
  And I think we have over 2,000 registered
• 39:52
  members, and about 300 to 400 of those
• 39:55
  are active on a month-to-month basis.
• 39:58
  So we're doing better than 10% active for
• 40:03
  the membership, and we're trying to get
• 40:05
  more stuff on there.
• 40:06
  We love hearing feedback from you guys,
• 40:09
  and, you know, what is
• 40:11
  it that you'd like to see?
• 40:12
  What is the stuff that
• 40:13
  you would not like to see?
• 40:14
  And we try to be accommodating, because
• 40:17
  unlike some of the other sites, that, at
• 40:20
  least in my opinion,
• 40:21
  seem to be there for the admin and
• 40:24
  moderators for their
• 40:26
  enjoyment in entertainment.
• 40:28
  We don't have a site without
• 40:29
  you. We need your questions.
• 40:32
  We need the pictures of
• 40:34
  things that you're working on.
• 40:35
  I mean, Dalton was a great example.
• 40:38
  He wanted a cargo cart, no, cargo rack
• 40:45
  for his Jeep Cherokee.
• 40:47
  You know, it's two weeks in a row. I've
• 40:48
  had a hard time remembering that.
• 40:49
  I'm going to have to remember right down
• 40:51
  what the s*** things are called.
• 40:53
  He wanted a cargo rack
• 40:54
  for his Jeep Cherokee.
• 40:55
  He didn't want to spend $300
• 40:56
  or $400 or even $500 for one.
• 40:59
  So he was actually thinking
• 41:01
  of making one out of wood.
• 41:03
  He had seen somebody had built one out of
• 41:04
  wood, and, you know, I think he works
• 41:06
  with wood for a living.
• 41:08
  So obviously that would be something that
• 41:10
  would be a natural thing for him to do.
• 41:13
  But he switched from that to a metal
• 41:16
  application by going and looking and
• 41:19
  seeing the electrical conduit that was
• 41:21
  available at Think Home Depot.
• 41:23
  And he came up with a
• 41:24
  really, really nice solution.
• 41:26
  Unless you looked at it really, really
• 41:29
  close, you would know
• 41:30
  that that's what it is.
• 41:32
  You would think, hey, this is one of
• 41:33
  those commercial racks that you buy off
• 41:35
  of Quadra Trek or one of
• 41:38
  the other XJ Talk vendors.
• 41:39
  And that's just how it is. And, you know,
• 41:42
  OK, you spent $300 or $400 for that. No.
• 41:44
  I built it myself out of electrical
• 41:46
  conduit, painted it black and attached it
• 41:49
  to my Jeep for $100.
• 41:51
  That's the kind of stuff we like. And
• 41:52
  actually, that's a write up on XJ Talk.
• 41:54
  It's on the very front page of XJ Talk.
• 41:56
  You scroll on down to the articles.
• 41:59
  And I think that is the latest article
• 42:02
  that we have. Check that real quick.
• 42:05
  It is...yep.
• 42:09
  Well, there we go. I could have just
• 42:10
  looked here and see that that is a roof
• 42:11
  rack, homemade roof rack without welding.
• 42:14
  So you guys that have welders, that's
• 42:17
  great. I don't have one.
• 42:18
  That's one of the things I want to get
• 42:19
  because there's some stuff
• 42:20
  that I want to be able to make.
• 42:21
  And especially now with a second Jeep
• 42:24
  Cherokee, I might want to make a few odds
• 42:27
  and ends for it since I
• 42:29
  bought everything for the 98.
• 42:32
  Nothing else just to have that experience
• 42:34
  of building those like...it'd be nice to
• 42:38
  build some sliders for it.
• 42:40
  But I think it'll be down the road. But I
• 42:43
  think I'm going to get some of the
• 42:44
  detours stuff for the bumpers, you know,
• 42:47
  the tailbone for the spare tire
• 42:50
  and then the backbone
• 42:53
  for a winch on the front.
• 42:56
  I don't know how happy my wife will be
• 42:57
  with all that. But, you
• 42:58
  know, she likes the 98.
• 43:00
  I just don't...I don't know how you feel
• 43:04
  driving around in one
• 43:06
  that looks simpler to it.
• 43:08
  Let's see what's going on here in the
• 43:09
  chat room. I have a tendency to get on a
• 43:12
  rant and not read what's happening.
• 43:14
  Sometimes they mess with me and get me
• 43:17
  off my train of thought. Let's see.
• 43:18
  So what are you guys doing?
• 43:20
  I see some talk about tents.
• 43:23
  Well, that's what I was telling Wayne
• 43:25
  with all the shaking that
• 43:26
  was going on over there.
• 43:27
  I told him I think I might be inclined to
• 43:29
  get a tent and be outside where if the
• 43:33
  tent falls on you, it doesn't hurt you.
• 43:35
  This
• 43:35
  *******
• 43:35
  you off.
• 43:36
  Oh, okay. So VW4Y says he's going camping
• 43:40
  this weekend, not looking forward to
• 43:42
  putting gas in the V10.
• 43:45
  I bet. You should be taking a Volkswagen.
• 43:48
  That would be better on fuel.
• 43:51
  You know, that's one of the things. VW4Y
• 43:55
  says it'll make me miss
• 43:57
  the pop-up pulled by the XJ.
• 43:59
  I'd like to have a pop-up camper. I think
• 44:01
  that'd be really cool. I just don't have
• 44:03
  any place to keep it.
• 44:05
  That's a sad thing about living in a
• 44:07
  subdivision and not having any kind of
• 44:10
  access, wide access to your backyard.
• 44:14
  You can't have a boat. You can't have a
• 44:17
  trailer. You can't have a
• 44:18
  pop-up trailer. None of that stuff.
• 44:20
  And then you've got to spend, I don't
• 44:22
  know, 40 bucks a month for a storage
• 44:24
  location so you can store it someplace.
• 44:26
  I mean, not only do you have to buy the
• 44:29
  trailer or the boat, but you've got to
• 44:30
  buy a place for it to live.
• 44:31
  So, man, it's just, I don't know. I was
• 44:35
  kind of hoping that in my career, which
• 44:38
  was going well several years ago,
• 44:40
  and I'm pretty sure we would not have
• 44:42
  been. My goal was not
• 44:44
  to be in the subdivision.
• 44:46
  I wanted to live in a nice subdivision,
• 44:49
  in a nice school
• 44:49
  district for my two young girls.
• 44:51
  And then as they got older, maybe moved
• 44:54
  to a location where they could still
• 44:57
  attend the school they were attending,
• 44:59
  but not be in a subdivision to have, you
• 45:02
  know, a half acre, an acre more, if
• 45:05
  possible, and have a nice
• 45:07
  house on some nice acreage.
• 45:09
  And have things like trailers and boats
• 45:12
  and things, but that hasn't worked out.
• 45:14
  The economy just hasn't been there for
• 45:16
  that. And, well, we
• 45:18
  all work in the economy,
• 45:20
  and we know how it has been tumultuous
• 45:24
  over the last 10 years, 10, 11 years.
• 45:28
  Because I think it was 2002, whenever my
• 45:32
  career took a nosedive,
• 45:33
  that was, I think, a downturn in the
• 45:35
  economy that happened right after the
• 45:38
  9-11 attack, within a
• 45:39
  year of the 9-11 attack.
• 45:43
  Anywho, wow. So, lizardrunner, he says,
• 45:48
  "Yeah, mine runs about 80 a month."
• 45:50
  So that's your storage location? Is $80 a
• 45:53
  month? How big a storage is that?
• 45:55
  Is it climate controlled, and is there a
• 45:57
  bathroom and running water and cable TV?
• 46:02
  Because that wouldn't be bad to live.
• 46:03
  VWFoolwellY says, "I know that I moved to
• 46:07
  an apartment a year and a half ago, and
• 46:09
  everything from my garage is
• 46:11
  in $120 a month for storage."
• 46:13
  Wow. I can't believe they get...well, I
• 46:16
  guess I'm a little out of touch.
• 46:19
  That's a pretty good-sized
• 46:20
  place, though, isn't it, 20 by 20?
• 46:22
  Lizardrunner says, "No climate control,
• 46:23
  but it's 20 feet by 20 feet."
• 46:26
  I guess that's not so
• 46:27
  bad for $80 a month.
• 46:29
  Do you have any problem with people
• 46:31
  breaking in or trying to
• 46:33
  break into them to steal stuff?
• 46:35
  I guess you don't have a sign on the
• 46:36
  outside, "Stay out, tools inside."
• 46:40
  Well, you know, my in-laws, my
• 46:43
  father-in-law purchased two lots,
• 46:45
  and he's in a neighborhood where they
• 46:48
  don't have a homeowners association, or
• 46:50
  at least they're not active.
• 46:52
  I think if they were active, they would
• 46:54
  get the crack dealer
• 46:55
  that's three houses down.
• 46:56
  And he bought two lots that he built his
• 46:59
  house on, so he's got a lot of room, and
• 47:02
  they are just such sweet people.
• 47:05
  I mean, they treat me as good
• 47:08
  or better than my own family.
• 47:11
  And I had just had it in my mind that if
• 47:14
  I got a boat or something, I would be
• 47:16
  able to keep it over there.
• 47:17
  And I figured what I would do, he's being
• 47:19
  inefficient and stuff, and I figured what
• 47:21
  I'd be able to do is I'll
• 47:22
  keep the boat over there,
• 47:23
  and if he wants to take
• 47:24
  it out, he can take it out.
• 47:26
  Well, I can't remember exactly what it
• 47:28
  was we were talking about,
• 47:31
  and something recent came up.
• 47:32
  It wasn't a boat or anything.
• 47:35
  I think it was a vehicle.
• 47:37
  I think my stepson had two vehicles at
• 47:39
  one time or something here in the past.
• 47:41
  I can't remember exactly what it was, but
• 47:43
  I suggested that, and
• 47:46
  this is a grandson, mind you,
• 47:49
  I suggested that why doesn't he take that
• 47:51
  over there and park it in grandpa's yard?
• 47:54
  And I heard, "Oh, no, no, no, he doesn't
• 47:56
  want anything parked in
• 47:58
  the blah, blah, blah."
• 47:59
  And I said, "Oh, really?"
• 48:00
  Well, I was thinking if I ever got a
• 48:01
  boat, I'd be able to, "Oh, no, no, no,
• 48:03
  no, he doesn't want anything parked."
• 48:05
  I was shocked. I was just really shocked.
• 48:07
  So I guess that's good.
• 48:09
  I guess I would have checked with him if
• 48:12
  I had gone out to buy a boat before I
• 48:15
  bought it to see if I
• 48:16
  could keep it there.
• 48:17
  It's just, you know, when it's family and
• 48:21
  the family goes out of its way to make
• 48:22
  sure that you know that
• 48:24
  you're part of the family,
• 48:26
  there's some things that you just assume
• 48:28
  are the way they are, and boy, it wasn't.
• 48:33
  I don't have firsthand knowledge, but
• 48:35
  I've just been told that by my wife, so
• 48:38
  it's possible that I
• 48:39
  could be misinformed on that,
• 48:40
  but I don't think so. I
• 48:41
  think she's telling me true.
• 48:44
  And I'm sure that if I asked nice and
• 48:46
  stuff, it would be, "Yeah, sure," but,
• 48:48
  you know, you don't want to put somebody
• 48:50
  out simply because they
• 48:52
  don't want to tell you no.
• 48:54
  Some people don't have the good sense of
• 48:56
  not asking. They ask anyway, and I try
• 48:59
  not to be one of those people.
• 49:00
  I'm not always successful, but I try not
• 49:01
  to be one of those people.
• 49:03
  Okay, so no calls. The last
• 49:06
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• 49:08
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• 49:55
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  discussed, send me an email.
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  But it's a lot more fun, I think, for me
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  and the audience if you call in and leave
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  your message on the feedback line.
• 50:22
  So anyway, that's my life of blown bent
• 50:27
  or damaged in some way heads.
• 50:33
  Like I said, at least I'm lucky enough to
• 50:35
  be able to have the skills and the
• 50:38
  friends that can help me get through it.
• 50:41
  And I'll feel better in the end that I
• 50:46
  was able to accomplish it.
• 50:48
  And again, I'll mention my very, very
• 50:54
  huge thanks to Matt M.S. Mornenberg at
• 50:58
  one of the admins at
• 50:59
  xjtalk.com for his day-long effort.
• 51:03
  I mean, it was almost a full eight-hour
• 51:05
  work day fixing the
• 51:07
  AC on that 99 Cherokee.
• 51:10
  And boy, my wife is just
• 51:12
  very grateful for the AC.
• 51:16
  The 99 is a very nice vehicle. If we
• 51:18
  hadn't blown that
• 51:18
  hose out, just so stupid.
• 51:21
  And having two problems at the same time
• 51:25
  with the alternator going to zero and
• 51:28
  then the lower radiator hose blowing out.
• 51:33
  You know, if I had seen some coolant or
• 51:35
  smelled some coolant, I would not have
• 51:37
  let it sit there and run thinking I was
• 51:40
  trying to charge the battery.
• 51:42
  So I think the alternator may still have
• 51:45
  a problem, but the belt was loose from us
• 51:50
  changing up the compressor last Saturday.
• 51:53
  So I tightened up the belt with my little
• 51:55
  graduated thumb that I got from
• 51:57
  O'Reilly's actual belt tensioning tool
• 51:59
  that measures the tension on the belt.
• 52:02
  And I have not seen the problem with the
• 52:04
  alternator even driving around the
• 52:07
  neighborhood with the
• 52:07
  lights on and the AC on,
• 52:09
  which is what she was doing late that
• 52:12
  night coming home with
• 52:13
  the lights and the AC on.
• 52:14
  So I think that problem is resolved, but
• 52:16
  we've generated
• 52:18
  another one in the process.
• 52:20
  Oh well, live and learn. So until next
• 52:23
  week, Wednesday 8 p.m. Central Time,
• 52:26
  we'll see you then and have a good week.
• 52:28
  Don't blow a head gasket.
• 53:01
  This is Brian XJ just calling in to tell
• 53:10
  you that we really like the website.
• 53:12
  It's full of a lot of tech and a lot of
• 53:13
  good people. I always get a response back
• 53:15
  quickly. Thanks, have a good day.
• 53:20
  Oh f*** yeah, that's
• 53:21
  what I'm talking about.
• 53:23
  You just verbally skull that episode in
• 53:25
  the best possible way. I felt every
• 53:28
  radiator burp and every my
• 53:30
  life moment through your words.
• 53:31
  That part where Matt's ripping the dash
• 53:33
  out like a cooked up surgeon. That's not
• 53:36
  mechanics. That's performance art.
• 53:38
  Man's out here doing open heart surgery
• 53:40
  on a plastic cockpit with nothing but
• 53:42
  rage and socket extensions.
• 53:44
  Absolute war hero. And
• 53:46
  Tony's spiral is poetry.
• 53:49
  My wife's car is coolant. So obviously
• 53:52
  I'm buying another XJ. The man is one
• 53:54
  blown head gasket away
• 53:56
  from starting a cult.
• 53:57
  I swear to God, if he ever gets an
• 53:59
  exhaust gas tester, he'll be out there on
• 54:01
  the street corner like
• 54:02
  a crack head mechanic.
• 54:04
  Twenty five bucks. And I'll tell you if
• 54:06
  your rings are bro. Trust me.
• 54:08
  The way he bounces from my entire fleet
• 54:11
  is committing ritual
• 54:12
  suicide straight into B2W.
• 54:14
  My friend's house got split in half by an
• 54:17
  earthquake with zero chill. That's the
• 54:19
  content I live for. No fake transitions.
• 54:23
  Just pure unmedicated brain.
• 54:25
  This review is so good, it deserves to be
• 54:27
  carved into the side of a rusty XJ with a
• 54:29
  plasma cutter. You're out here doing the
• 54:31
  Lord's work reviewing these
• 54:33
  mechanical mental breakdowns.
• 54:35
  Keep cooking, you beautiful. Now tell me,
• 54:38
  which part had you laughing the hardest,
• 54:40
  the radiator volcano or when he went full
• 54:43
  philosopher about the
• 54:44
  earthquakes?