[lupinsea]

Last summer my engine was running warm but the comment from my club was not to worry about it unless it stayed in the red on the temp guage as the archaic Jeep engines could take it. It at least got me through my summer fun, and fall fun, and some winter fun.

But it seemed like a good idea to clean out while the water pump was out.

I figured there would be some debris but I had no idea it was this clogged up. There were a lot of bird feathers in with the lump of debris on the front. As in, there might have been a bird that got sucked into the front grill area at one point. Spent a lot of time trying to back flush the crud out of the radiator. It only worked a little bit. Then I spent about an hour last night going tiny fin by tiny fin with a small flat bladed implement to dislodge the crud. I got about 1/3 of the radiator cleared out. Will work on the rest later as time permits.