Great video bro, I have the same problem for long time, and found an extra tip that I learned in Colombia South America. To clean the entire system use 1 galon of destile water, 12 onces of destile white vinegar and 6 onces of baking soda. To drain all the system, open your radiator bottom plug, connect a garden hose to the radiator top filler and start the engine till water comes clear, and turn engine off, remove garden hose. That save you a lot time and money. Remove radiator drain plug and blow air from top of radiator till not water comes. Close drain plug and ad half galon od destile water, then 12 oz of destile white vinegar and finally the 6 oz of baking soda, start the engine with heater on MAX and keep adding destile water on radiator till is full, install the radiator cap and drive for 25 to 30 miles. This cleans and removed any thrash inside all your entire engine, heater and radiator. After engine is cold, drain everything you can same way with low air pressure no more the 25 psi hose. After is empty close the drain plug and filler up again with ONLY just destile water, drive it for 3 to 4 days keeping the eye on radiator level all the time. With cold engine remove the plug and drain everything again, till is empty. Install the plug and repeat the process till all the thrash, rust and any nasty shit is out. Now that ONLY clean water comes out, close the drain plug, and fill it with 50/50 antifreeze and destile water according to the type factory recommends till the system is full after you start the engine and check for leaks. This's a long process but, saves you money, tow truck, parts, labor and headaches. Never mixed antifreeze different COLORS or BRANDS, don't ask me, I learned believing all greens are equal. The white destile vinegar cleans and remove any RUST and the baking soda clean your RADIATOR and hoses.
I'm glad to see that you tried to get the tap water out and replace it with distilled water, but you will still have a lot of tap water minerals in there. What I would recommend is, before adding any antifreeze, fill it completely with just distilled water, take it for a long drive (at least 20 miles), then drain and repeat at least four times, then put the antifreeze in.
It’s certainly not easy to get all the tap water out, but your idea sounds like a great addition. It would help by diluting and using the engine to mix all the water up. Very smart idea! Thank you!
@@EmbarkWithMark You're welcome. You might also find you'll get even more debris out that way also. I've seen far too many cooling systems ruined just by people topping up their coolant with tap water. I wish the manufactures would put big warning signs saying to only use distilled water in all of the vehicle systems that take water. Non-distilled water plugs up cooling systems and reduces cooling efficiency, it will destroy batteries and it will plug up windshield washer nozzles and pumps and leave spots on the windshield.
Did this solve your overheating problem? In a previous video you mentioned you’d test the head gasket. I’ve done all the steps you’ve done in these videos but still have overheating problems. Hopefully you see this. Thanks
Running thermocure and flushing extensively helped alot. I still run a smidge warm at times and I’m now thinking the radiator is partly clogged. Right now it’s just to hot to work on things, 115-120 in my area, but once it cools down I’m going to pull the radiator and take it apart. Thinking about doing a video on that so we can see what the radiator looks like on the inside and if it indeed is plugged up. Thoughts on a video like that?
@@Jarod1941 Yea, I didn’t realize there was one either. It’s up near the exhaust manifold between the cats if you have them. wranglertjforum.com/threads/is-this-the-engine-block-coolant-drain-plug.29199/
Great video bro, I have the same problem for long time, and found an extra tip that I learned in Colombia South America.
To clean the entire system use 1 galon of destile water, 12 onces of destile white vinegar and 6 onces of baking soda. To drain all the system, open your radiator bottom plug, connect a garden hose to the radiator top filler and start the engine till water comes clear, and turn engine off, remove garden hose. That save you a lot time and money. Remove radiator drain plug and blow air from top of radiator till not water comes.
Close drain plug and ad half galon od destile water, then 12 oz of destile white vinegar and finally the 6 oz of baking soda, start the engine with heater on MAX and keep adding destile water on radiator till is full, install the radiator cap and drive for 25 to 30 miles. This cleans and removed any thrash inside all your entire engine, heater and radiator. After engine is cold, drain everything you can same way with low air pressure no more the 25 psi hose. After is empty close the drain plug and filler up again with ONLY just destile water, drive it for 3 to 4 days keeping the eye on radiator level all the time. With cold engine remove the plug and drain everything again, till is empty. Install the plug and repeat the process till all the thrash, rust and any nasty shit is out. Now that ONLY clean water comes out, close the drain plug, and fill it with 50/50 antifreeze and destile water according to the type factory recommends till the system is full after you start the engine and check for leaks. This's a long process but, saves you money, tow truck, parts, labor and headaches. Never mixed antifreeze different COLORS or BRANDS, don't ask me, I learned believing all greens are equal. The white destile vinegar cleans and remove any RUST and the baking soda clean your RADIATOR and hoses.
Isn’t vinegar acidic and baking soda a base so mixing them actually counterintuitive? Wouldn’t using the vinegar by itself be better?
I'm glad to see that you tried to get the tap water out and replace it with distilled water, but you will still have a lot of tap water minerals in there. What I would recommend is, before adding any antifreeze, fill it completely with just distilled water, take it for a long drive (at least 20 miles), then drain and repeat at least four times, then put the antifreeze in.
It’s certainly not easy to get all the tap water out, but your idea sounds like a great addition. It would help by diluting and using the engine to mix all the water up. Very smart idea! Thank you!
@@EmbarkWithMark You're welcome. You might also find you'll get even more debris out that way also.
I've seen far too many cooling systems ruined just by people topping up their coolant with tap water. I wish the manufactures would put big warning signs saying to only use distilled water in all of the vehicle systems that take water. Non-distilled water plugs up cooling systems and reduces cooling efficiency, it will destroy batteries and it will plug up windshield washer nozzles and pumps and leave spots on the windshield.
Keep us updated! I got the exact same problem.
Will do!
Did this solve your overheating problem? In a previous video you mentioned you’d test the head gasket. I’ve done all the steps you’ve done in these videos but still have overheating problems.
Hopefully you see this.
Thanks
Running thermocure and flushing extensively helped alot. I still run a smidge warm at times and I’m now thinking the radiator is partly clogged.
Right now it’s just to hot to work on things, 115-120 in my area, but once it cools down I’m going to pull the radiator and take it apart. Thinking about doing a video on that so we can see what the radiator looks like on the inside and if it indeed is plugged up. Thoughts on a video like that?
Wondering if what looked like sand was actually rust. Maybe look into Thermocure from Evaporust.
Could be, but I did use Thermocure a while back in this video: th-cam.com/video/LtwPEW_RA8E/w-d-xo.html
Drain coolant/water and then run your engine for 20-25 seconds to drain the block
I’ve realized from a recent flush that the 4.0 has a drain plug to drain the entire block. Works very well.
@@EmbarkWithMark Freeze plug. It's always recommended to use a new one when the old is pulled. Easily available at any auto parts store
@@Jarod1941 it’s not a freeze plug. Threaded low point drain plug. But yes, pull a freeze plug and a new one should be used.
@@EmbarkWithMark Been a Jeep guy for 40+ years and have somehow missed this threaded drain plug.
Google here I come!
@@Jarod1941 Yea, I didn’t realize there was one either. It’s up near the exhaust manifold between the cats if you have them. wranglertjforum.com/threads/is-this-the-engine-block-coolant-drain-plug.29199/
How’d this fix your issue
My cooling system had many years of sediment in it. This cleaned the sediment from the radiator.
Flakes rust need rust remover
Exactly, I learned the hard way. Thermocure worked wonders.