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<blockquote data-quote="Plastic Fury" data-source="post: 442073" data-attributes="member: 21352"><p>The Jeep only has 61k on it and the engine was running and sounded pretty good but was leaking oil all over. I started to go through the engine, the valve cover bolts were all finger loose and two were missing in the back. This whole thing turned into "while you are in there" pretty fast. I had already been planning to replace the valve cover and oil pan gaskets, most likely the rear main, water pump, thermostat, all the usual stuff when no maintenance has been done. The engine mounts were shot and I swapped in the Brown Dog mounts I had in my previous YJ (should have waited to do that a little later lol).</p><p></p><p>I started tearing all the accessories off the engine. It was one caked, oily mess.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122834[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122835[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>While I was cleaning all up the block/head I was gently using a wire brush on the core plugs</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122836[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>The next morning I had a little puddle on the garage floor. I realized the plugs must be pretty rusty on the inside. Great. I drained the coolant and found that the PO had been using tap water for coolant. I flushed it several times to try and get the crappy, rust water out.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122837[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122838[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Yeah, just what I wanted to see.......</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122839[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>I was actually glad that it leaked through one of the plugs, I may not have realized how bad they were until I had put everything back together. Much easier to replace them with it torn down.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122840[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Plastic Fury, post: 442073, member: 21352"] The Jeep only has 61k on it and the engine was running and sounded pretty good but was leaking oil all over. I started to go through the engine, the valve cover bolts were all finger loose and two were missing in the back. This whole thing turned into "while you are in there" pretty fast. I had already been planning to replace the valve cover and oil pan gaskets, most likely the rear main, water pump, thermostat, all the usual stuff when no maintenance has been done. The engine mounts were shot and I swapped in the Brown Dog mounts I had in my previous YJ (should have waited to do that a little later lol). I started tearing all the accessories off the engine. It was one caked, oily mess. [ATTACH type="full"]122834[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]122835[/ATTACH] While I was cleaning all up the block/head I was gently using a wire brush on the core plugs [ATTACH type="full"]122836[/ATTACH] The next morning I had a little puddle on the garage floor. I realized the plugs must be pretty rusty on the inside. Great. I drained the coolant and found that the PO had been using tap water for coolant. I flushed it several times to try and get the crappy, rust water out. [ATTACH type="full"]122837[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]122838[/ATTACH] Yeah, just what I wanted to see....... [ATTACH type="full"]122839[/ATTACH] I was actually glad that it leaked through one of the plugs, I may not have realized how bad they were until I had put everything back together. Much easier to replace them with it torn down. [ATTACH type="full"]122840[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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