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General Forums => The Mess Hall => Topic started by: jwalls4x4 on February 20, 2008, 04:06:27 PM
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Go ahead, laugh at me. I started to change the oil in my wife's XJ at dusk yesterday :stick:. I had to work pretty hard to get the oil drain plug off because the local shop I let change the oil last time had torqued it down hard :brick:. The seal was toast and they replaced it with a metal washer without telling me. So I cruise to the auto parts store to get a new one. It was pretty dark when I swapped the oil filter, which was also torqued hard enough to pull the seal off. I heard an unusual crunch when I put it on :eek:. Yeah so today my wife told me she couldn't go to the store because her jeep had no oil pressure :confused:. I had crushed the oil pressure switch putting the oil filter on :flush:. Only work on your Jeep under bright lights :rant:! And change your own oil.
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ya when oil filters get too tight they are a pia.... i had to change the filters on the bobcat at work a year ago and all 3 of filters i had to cahnge where so tight that we had to puncture the filters to get them off.