Welcome Jeepers!

[old jeeper]

How to Change the Oil in Your Jeep. . .

Women:

Pull in to Jiffy Lube when the mileage reaches 3,000 since the last oil change

Drink a cup of coffee

Fifteen minutes later, pay $25 and leave with a properly maintained Jeep



Men:

Go to NAPA Auto Parts and pay $30 for oil, filter, hand cleaner, scented tree air freshener, and numerous other items you realize you need

Discover that your used oil collection container is full; take it to the recycling center

Spend 20 minutes trying to locate your floor jack and jack stands; no luck

Have a beer; you don't really need to jack up the Jeep anyway

Place used oil collection container under the engine

Pull out socket wrench and socket; the 5th one you try is finally the correct size

Unscrew oil drain plug

Drop drain plug in oil; splashing hot oil all over you (and the garage floor) in the process

Wipe off face with dirty shop rag and sprinkle kitty litter on garage floor where oil splashed

Have another beer while oil is draining

Look 15 minutes for oil filter wrench; no luck

Poke oil filter with a Phillips screwdriver and twist it off

Wipe oil off of your arm with same dirty rag used in step 9; sprinkle more kitty litter on floor

Buddy shows up; finish off 6-pack with him. Screw the oil change; finish it tomorrow!

Next day, drag full oil collection container out from underneath the Jeep

Sprinkle more kitty litter on oil spilled during step 15

Have a . . . wait, no beer left, drank it all yesterday

Walk 2 miles to Corner Store; buy more beer

Apply a thin coat of clean oil to gasket and install new oil filter

Dump first quart of fresh oil into engine

Remember drain plug from step 8!

Scramble to find drain plug in oil collection container

Hurry to replace drain plug before entire quart of fresh oil drains all over floor

Slip with wrench and bang knuckles on frame; band head on floor board in reaction

Begin cussing fit and throw wrench across garage

Clean up and apply Band-Aid to knuckles

Sprinkle kitty litter on one entire quart of fresh oil now pooled under the Jeep

Have another beer

Dump in remainder of oil into engine

Realize that while you were under the Jeep, it would have been a good time to grease everything, bleed the brakes, replace those dry-rotted body spacers, and find out where that hideous clanking noise is coming from

Drive back to NAPA and buy another $150 worth of parts that either won't fit, will break when you try to install them, or will be saved for a later project (all of which will have long been misplaced by the time you are ready to start subject project)

Drive Jeep (1-quart low of oil) for 7,000 miles; then return to Step 1
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[rooster5333]

LOL Thats so true! My last oil change cost me $542 at Advance Auto.
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2010 Jeep Beach Vendor Rep
Blue Ribbon Coalition Member

[millicon]

Just goes to prove we are the smarter sex.....
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"Do the next right thing as opposed to doing the next thing right." Michael J Fox

[rooster5333]

Nah, we just like to tinker with chit
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2010 Jeep Beach Vendor Rep
Blue Ribbon Coalition Member

[Desimus]

I would take my jeep to Jeff M.
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Thanks,
Tim

"They do not see
what lies ahead,
when Sun has failed
and Moon is dead".
Gollum: The original rock crawler!

[Fred06JeepTJ]

My husband is lucky. I change the oil in my Jeep and his Tahoe. My Jeep is easy. His Tahoe on the other hand, has limited space to get under it without jacking it up, which is why I do it for him too. And, there's no room to turn the filter either. Now, his Jeep is his problem. LOL.
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Charlene,
Secretary, TCJC

If you don't break something, then
you weren't having fun!!

[jkmansell]