{"id":5287,"date":"2019-12-04T20:50:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T01:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/?p=5287"},"modified":"2019-12-04T20:51:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T01:51:19","slug":"xj-coolant-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/xj-coolant-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"XJ Coolant Leak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While driving in traffic, I heard my electric fan kick on. This is unusual for my Jeep even in traffic. I looked at the gauges and saw the temperature was running much warmer than usual.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I switched on the heater and rolled down the windows.&nbsp; The temperature started to drop slowly. As soon as I started moving again, the temperature dropped back to normal. &nbsp; But each time I stopped, The temperature would rise quickly.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>I managed to make it home without a major overheat.&nbsp; I felt the radiator cap and it was cool to the touch.&nbsp; This indicated to me that I was low on coolant.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I looked for leaks and did not see any.&nbsp; I still park over a pan since my Jeep used to leak oil before the replacement.&nbsp; There has been no evidence of coolant in the pan.  I popped the cap and sure enough, the level was low.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had to add quite a bit of coolant so it was very low.&nbsp; But I still did not see a leak. I decided to try driving to work again the next day.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After another trip, the overflow bottle was empty and the level in the radiator was down slightly.&nbsp; I knew I had a leak but there was still no visible evidence.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I got out my Stant Radiator tester. <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/387YwvI\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/387YwvI<\/a> First I checked the cap. <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2P7VEXe\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/2P7VEXe<\/a>\u00a0 It relieved at the set pressure of 13 psi and seemed to hold below that.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/38avQ5l\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"747\" height=\"560\" src=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/captester.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5288\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/captester.jpg 747w, http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/captester-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/38avQ5l\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"812\" height=\"609\" src=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/radiatortester.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5289\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/radiatortester.jpg 812w, http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/radiatortester-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/radiatortester-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, I connected the tester to the radiator. <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2rhcdbl\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/2rhcdbl<\/a> As soon as I started pumping I heard fluid hitting the pan under the Jeep.\u00a0 At first glance, I thought it was the lower radiator hose, but on more careful inspection, I saw it was coming from the water pump weep hole.<br \/>Since it only leaked under pressure, I was not seeing the evidence.\u00a0 I removed the leaking water pump <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/34P1x2d\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/34P1x2d<\/a> and swapped it for a new one under warranty.\u00a0 I was glad I caught it before I overheated my new engine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While driving in traffic, I heard my electric fan kick on. This is unusual for my Jeep even in traffic. I looked at the gauges and saw the temperature was running much warmer than usual. I switched on the heater and rolled down the windows.&nbsp; The temperature started to drop slowly. As soon as I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/xj-coolant-leak\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;XJ Coolant Leak&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[210,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5291,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287\/revisions\/5291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}