Re: Removing the head on a 4.0 Wrangler

Mike Romain wrote:

> If you lift up on the top rad hose with the thermostat's housing on the 
> end to move it out of the way to put a new t-stat in, vs removing the 
> hose at the rad first, then removing the t-stat housing, the stress put 
> on the tank is enough to make them fail.
> 
> A few have come my way with this failure for the above reason.

Interesting!  If that's all it takes to break the plastic OEM radiator,
I'm 
going to install an all-metal radiator before this one breaks.  I plan to
keep 
this horse a LONG time, so it's money well spent.

Thanks for the head's-up.


-Outatime
Wheelin'-n-Grinnin' in Central CA, USA