Recent content by Aarin208

Mine went out in my 18’ at just over 50,000 as well, except when mine went out, the retainer that holds the spring on the thermostat blew off and got sucked up through the water pump into made to the rad and subsequently blew the head gasket. It's been sitting in my garage for 3 years as of...

Also any tips on getting the oil out of the cooling system and antifreeze out of the oil in the engine would be greatly appreciated!

So here are the pictures of the oil cooler. I’m almost a 99% certain it was internal. There was zero evidence that it had been leaking from the bottom where the gaskets meet the valley. It was bone dry. I believe it was leaking/mixing inside the exchanger itself. The quality of this cooler is...

Work had been crazy the last couple of months so It took me awhile to put it back together. I held off on the head gasket as suggested. So tonight I fired it up, started the purge process on the coolant. Everything was going fine until I turned the heat on. That’s when I heard what sounded like...

Work had been crazy the last couple of months so It took me awhile to put it back together. I held off on the head gasket as suggested. So tonight I fired it up, started the purge process on the coolant. Everything was going fine until I turned the heat on. That’s when I heard what sounded like...

I’m going to be replacing the head gaskets on my 2018 JK unlimited sport currently I have about 52,000 miles on it. Is there any suggestions of other parts that I should preemptively change while I do the head gasket and any thoughts about aftermarket versus OEM? So back story on this, my...