How old is your rig?

[Mortblanc]

I had to make the 25 mile trek to town Tuesday to fetch a new refrigerator.

The Jeep is all I have that is endowed with a trailer hitch at this time. I managed to blow all the coolant out of the system on the trip. I blamed it on a bad thermostat. The one in there was probably the factory issue.

It was giving fluctuations in temp on the road, up to 220f, and blowing the coolant out the bypass hose, so the radiator was not plugged, the water pump was working and apparently the thermostat was not opening properly.

Yesterday I replaced the unit and today we will find out if my diagnosis was correct, since I have to take the old fridge to the recycling center, which is a 30 mile round trip and should test the system nicely.

That is one of the things one faces with these old rigs, something is going wrong constantly, and most of the time suddenly.