Topic: Don't work on your Jeep in the dark.

[jwalls4x4]

Go ahead, laugh at me.  I started to change the oil in my wife's XJ at dusk yesterday .  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 .   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 .  Yeah so today my wife told me she couldn't go to the store because her jeep had no oil pressure .  I had crushed the oil pressure switch putting the oil filter on  .  Only work on your Jeep under bright lights !  And change your own oil.

[chardrc]

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.