Not having learned from the last time, I let my teenager take the jeep out for the weekend. I warned him that it has been overheating and not to push it too hard, but he didn't listen... and now I have found out that not once, not twice, but three different times, he let the engine completely overheat, then just waited for it to cool off, restarted, and drove on.
There doesn't APPEAR to be any lasting damage, at least not on the surface. But I'm wondering what may lurk in store. What happens when an engine overheats? what components are most likely to be damaged and in need of attention?
(In case you are wondering what happened last time: He had only a 32 inch spare along with a jeep that otherwise ran 36 inch tires. He put the 32 on when he got a flat, and then drove home. This in and of itself might not have been such a disaster, except that he left the lockers engaged and drove home 70 miles on paved roads.)