Im not sure if you’re referring to me, the OP, but I’m getting some heat. It’s not as hot as my other TJs, I can tell because my hands are always cold. I couldn’t keep them on the vents, it’d burn. But on this one it just feels mildly warm but not hot.
Cheaper and easier to scan if you have a OBDII scanner.
I remember I couldn’t keep my hands touching the vents on my other TJs it would burn within seconds.I agree with you, although when he said the heater gets hot but not as hot as previous TJ’s is somewhat subjective. For one, human‘s can not remian in contact with anything over 120-125 degrees F for any length of time without being burnt - so to be able to distinguish a temp difference of 10-20 degrees F at 185 x 195 degrees F is very, very subjective.
A scanned temp reading, or better yet - 15 minutes under the hood with a new $8.00 195 degree stat will end all doubt.
The easy solution has been presented a few times above. All you need to do is whatever it takes to get your present thermostat replaced with a good quality 195 degree replacement. Whether you do it or you go back to tell that shop to make them do it. A Stant Superstat 195 degree would be good, it's not the only good one though.
Yours is running right where mine does! Congrats on getting this part fixed!
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every time, you would not belive how many dead ones I used to get (actually got a good one first time one the jeep, maybe that's the stanly price)
Last one I had failed open almost immediately after install. Check in boiling water prior to install - doesn't add that much extra time to verify.
If it took them 15 minutes to change then they drank a cup of coffee while doing it.
If I got stantlys or OEM T-stats (like I did for the Jeep) most of the time I imagine my failure rate would be much lower (stantly passed the test first try) however I’m a cheap bastard that generally buys cheap parts unless he has a good reason not to, so I have to test my stuff. And lemme tell you the failure rate on $3 autozone thermostats is shockingly high, at least round here.Interesting - been a shade tree mechanic since the middle 60’s, have never run into this problem. Not to be argumentative with @RMETeeJay, @KingCarGuyZ , and @beaufrusetta , but if the bad thermostat failure rate were that high, one would think that a high number of new cars would be in the shop soon after delivery to the buyer.
Either that or maybe the OEM engine builders have Homer Simpson sitting next to a boiling pot of water testing stats as he assembles the stat into the engine.
I just can’t see where the OEM’s have that much of a technical advantage on such a simple design - to the point that it wouldn’t surprise me that Stant builds stats for OEM use.
But that’s just me thinking.
At 9 pounds, water boils at ~235 degrees, at 18 pounds, ~250 degrees.
I hear ya - we acquired a ‘91 motorhome a couple of years back. Had a bad fuel pump in the 60 gallon gas tank, with ~40 gallons of gas in it. You have to drop the tank to replace the pump.
agreed, when I did the 02's on the jeep, I want Bosch at the orileys counter (not knowing, and Bosch has a great reputation as OEM equivalent in the VW world) boy was that a mistake, had to pull them out and throw in NTK's. that was the first real useful piece of info I got from the forum.
