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Originally Posted by Fifty150hs
Will doing a cooling system refresh this weekend, including the plastic pipes. I don't think those pipes have been touched in 273,000 miles. Not looking forward to pulling the intake manifold. Putting in a new Graf water pump with metal impeller. My hope is I never have to touch that again. Won't be changing the thermostat as I had to replace that recently. The expansion tank only has about 2 years on it as well. Same with the trans cooler thermostat. Radiator is still in good shape. I have one leaky hose.
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Not sure which motor you have, but if it’s a 4.4/6 you might want to take a good look at the CCV, separator, and associated plumbing, as well as the vacuum lines that are under the engine cover. It all degrades into a mess after 20+ years and can be replaced more easily with the intake off.
My X finally came back today and is running like a top. She should be after almost 3 weeks languishing in the land of broken BMW dreams (my Indy’s staging lot). I tried the easy trifecta fix and bought an eBay module, which didn’t work. I then considered sending one of my now two modules off to be reworked, but ended up biting the bullet and buying a new DSC module. I thought it would need programming, but it was plug and play. In for a penny, in for a pound with this car I guess.
While it was there he put in the rear Bilstein B4s I had been trying to find time to install, adjusted the parking brake, and put a new aux water pump in as the OE one failed as he was troubleshooting the trifecta.
Speaking of suspension, I spent the day installing a four corners Arnott Spring Conversion kit on my wife’s 2015 Jeep GC Overland. Last air suspension car I’ll ever buy. Worked great until it developed a leak a few weeks ago. Compressor was running way too much, leading to an intermittent dash warning. I suspected the right front strut, but the 20 gallons of soapy water I sprayed onto every likely candidate piece and part turned up nothing. Fronts are done and the rears will be tomorrow. Pretty straightforward, but a pita none the less. I will say the left front axle does need to come out of the diff (both need to come out of the hub), a process that was infinitely easier than the same axle work on the x5. The a quick tap on the end of the axle slid each out of the hubs, and a light pry with a pry bar popped the inner splines out of the diff. Arnott provides some electrical trickery to splice into the wires leading to the box that controls the air suspension is suppose to fool it into not lighting up the dash with service warnings.
Next owner will hopefully thank me as the the system uses nitrogen, has a zillion parts, any of which could be failing, and the air struts are over $1000 each and on indefinite back order according to the local Jeep dealer. Very un jeep-like. Car is going to be sold soon.