So just wondering if anybody else is thinking about what can be done to help their Jeep from going up in smoke.??

I have two thoughts for my Jeep.
Remove the RH oil/tranny/cat skid, and reinstall the OEM tranny Skid and Install an Oil Pan Skid (now needing protection) resulting in less heat on Tranny.
Install an after market Tranny Cooler.
Drive in town with the O/D off (which I do 90% of the time)
I've had the oil light go on once while wheeling in Colo (2 times within 2 miles, causing about a 60 min rest stop).. (once it was off I used 4LO, which I really didn't think I needed at the time but it helped, something learned about the Jeeps system I guess)

any thoughts?


other: we have had a car fire in our driveway and it sucks. Car had 90K+ miles on it if I recall, 86 Chey Nova, no recalls but the insurance company did there own little investigation and told us that there had been a dozen or so Chevy Nova and Toyota Corolla's that had engine compartment fire's which were believed to be caused by a faulty carburetor. Corolla's and Nova's in the late 80's were basically the same car. The joint venture that GM and Toyota had building cars in one of GM Calf plants, which is now closed.

 

Fire Extinguisher?

 

if it's gonna happen it's gonna happen.. atleast carry a fire extinguisher

 

I guess wash your under carriage per chrysler near the cat

 

fire extinguisher,, I guess I was thinking that's a basic Jeep tool but it's probably not.

I agree mostly with it's going to happen if it's going to happen.
I'm probably in the minority but I wash and inspect the under carriage almost after every outing, of course some outing are a week long, but even then i try and keep the mud and crap off to prevent build up..

I also park in the garage so I'm not to concerned about it.
I was thinking this was going thru a lot of Jeeper's mind with the recall and all..