First off your going to need an Oil Filter, Oil and a drain pan.
Oddly enough in this picture Im showing you 5quarts of oil when you need aproximately 6quarts. I used 6.25 for this oil change. |
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Just below your engine is your oil pan. Its located just behind your exhaust header.
Your oil pan might look a little different because I have a Toys By Troy Oil skid. Either way this is where the oil is going to be dumped from. |
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Place your drain pan center line with your oil pan, but place it just even with your drain pan front to back. Why? When you drain your pan its going to arch towards the rear and you do not want to dump it all over the floor. |
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Before you drain your oil pan lets find and remove the oil cap. Its located just behind the air inlet tube running from your air box into your throttle body. |
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With the fill cap removed lets remove the drain plug. |
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Ok, Tricked you didn't I. I like to jack up the front end just a little bit aproximately 6-inches to help the oil drain back out of the pan faster. |
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Use a 5/8ths socket to remove the drain plug. Loosen it and do not completely remove it. |
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Use your hand and be prepared to move quickly when the oil comes flying. |
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As soon as the oil comes out watch the oil pan and be prepaired to adjust if needed. |
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When the oil stops dripping and believe me its going to drip for nearly 5-minutes. Be patient, the more that runs out the cleaner your pan is going to be when you refill it with fresh oil.
Hand tighten the fill plug followed by torquing it down to 25flbs. |
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Use a rag and clean the area around the drain plug. When you clean your drain plug you can tell later if it leaks as well you dont want it dripping all over the floor. |
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All cleaned up. Under all that dust there is some black paint. |
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Slide over the drip pan center line just under the exhaust pipe to catch the oil filter. |
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Looking down at your engine on the passenger side just behind the altenator is your oil filter. |
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Grab the oil tilter and turn counter clockwise to loosen and remove. |
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As soon as you loosen the filter turn the filter straight up to limit the amount of fluid that spills out. |
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Even thou you removed your filter with care there will be some oil that spills out from your filter. In this picture you can see how it runs down along the engine just in front of your starter. Aren't you glad you placed your drip pan below it? |
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Prior to re-installing your new filter you need to dip your finger into your new oil and place it on the rubber gasket. |
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Simply lube up the new filter gasket. Dont worry there is no such thing as to much oil on this gasket. I often take a little bit of oil and lube up the threads of the filter as well to insure it screws on smoothly. |
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Twist on your new oil filter in the clockwise rotation.You are not trying to torque the filter with all your might. You goal is to simply make it snug. As well you DO NOT want to filter on so tight next time you cant remove it. |
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I like to clean up under the filter as well. Its a pain in but do dodging the exhaust and other parts under the Jeep, but give it your best. |
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I forget to mention you will need a funnel to fill up your Jeep. I often keep a lot of the 2-liter bottles we often pickup for one reason or another. Just use a razor or a sharp knife to cut it down to a reasonable length so you an manage it. |
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Pour in 5-quarts of oil and try not to make a mess. |
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This is what 5-quarts of oil looks like. The easiest way to check your oil is to pull the dip stick. Once you pull it, it might be hard to read. Simply clean the dip stick with a clean rag and re-insert it in the engine. Remove the dip stick and look for a obvious fill line. In this case the oil level is still a bit low. Simply pour in about 1/4 of a quart at a time and recheck to make sure you haven't over filled it.
I haven't taken a picture, but I will later. You want the oil level just between the Fill and Safe. Anything in that range is fine. If your low you can always add, if you over fill your going to have to dump some out pulling the plug. |
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