Hello everybody! Good day to you! Welcome back! Glad you guys are here. Check this thing out! This is a 2 000 year 2000 Jeep Cherokee Sport 4-liter four-wheel drive. It's a it's semi-off road. We have off-roadish tires, but they're not like ginormous, insanely oversized off-road tires.

So we daily driver this. Jeep I mean I don't The customer does, but it's a daily driven Jeep And it's a it's a capable daily driver. That's what we'll call her. Looks like we got whoa.

Look at that 250 725 miles on the odometer. That's over a quarter million miles on this unit. How about that? I Believe the purpose of the visit is not one specific thing or one very large thing actually. I Think it is, uh, it's going to be multiple, uh, smaller things that have kind of added up.

I Have some parts over here on the passenger seat. Uh, looks like we've got some kind of a electrical cable so that appears to be a ground cable. We've got a ground issue. I've got some gaskets.

Let's uh, there we go. look at that oil filter housing gasket. Okay, so I'm assuming we're looking for an oil leak because I found an oil filter so that's coming out of it. Oh, and look at this over here.

haha I bet you didn't see that one coming. So anyway, Let's uh, all jokes aside, let's go ahead and swing this thing on into the shop. over here. we're still in the third stall.

I Got cars in the other two stalls, but we're gonna get this in the shop popsy. Hood Take A Look Down Below at our engine and we'll see. if we can't locate an oil leak. we'll see what's going on with that ground strap cable and uh, anything else we can.

uh, we can put back together on this thing. We're gonna do that too. So stay tuned because this is gonna be a very good video opening. Z Hood is our brake rotor.

There was a great Rudder All right, let's get to it. Powering down and of course popping Z Hood All right, powering down. let us pop in Z Hood All right, what do we got going on here? Hello! G There we go. look at that nice clean four liter straight six old tractor motor.

Okay, let's go ahead and get our prop Rod set up into service mode. There we go. Okay, so as we saw earlier, there's that gasket set in there. One of our primary concerns on this is the oil filter housing slash adapter.

It appears to have a leak, so right down there that's our oil filter. We can see it's got a mobile one filter on it, but if we follow, we've got this 90 degree looking bracket type of deal Dart right there and then that, uh, that bolts to the engine block right over here. So there's a gasket like a big o-ring between that adapter and the engine block. and it appears that that thing is a leaker.

so that's definitely something we're going to take a look at and probably replace. uh a little later on after we finish inspecting things. All right. Well, since we're in the business of a look for oil leaks, let's see: I see I do see some oil up here on this valve cover but I also see a uh, a shiny blue gasket under it I think I see blue gasket? Yeah I see a little bit right right through there sticking out.

See that. So I think that gasket's been replaced I don't believe that. Uh, that's a major leak that needs to be addressed I can recheck the torque on the bolts, but I think we're good. There's that ground wire.

Found that that's a common Jeep thing. Some rodents. Uh, nothing major. Okay, this goes up here.

We're gonna fix that too. I don't I don't like wiring harnesses just laying on the ground. Come here. In fact, let's fix that right now.

I Need tools here. We're gonna go in there with a tool. Pluck these guys out of the hole in their firewall. Do that without gouging up this paint.

It's really nice painting. Come here. Seriously. we will lose my ability to escalate.

Knows No Limits come over here I know I'm doing it wrong I'm group forcing it when I need to be caressing and uh I need to stop talking. just come out there leverage leverage those required. Okay, so I have replacement zip tie devices. See these guys.

it's the same as basically what we just removed except new and not broken. Sure, think I'll wrap this around first. Yeah, yeah, we'll do it like this. Start the thing and then we can push it in so and then zip it up nice and tight there secured.

Let's get this other one right back here. We'll pull you out, Come out, come out. No seriously. okay.

annoying. Grab it and twist it there. Victory was mine. I stole it I've seized the day.

Let's see here. Let's uh hey. this one's a little bit different than that other one I just had look. it's a different design this work now that way.

Sure, let's try this. Well and then there we go. Give that some Zips push it in, snip it in. there we go.

That's nice. much more better. That's how it's supposed to look. You know, since we're right here, we're like, literally right here.

I'm gonna go ahead and pull this ground strap off and change it out with the other one. No need to. uh, come back to it later Ah that's going to take the mythical quarter inch Drive 15. about that.

No, that's not coming off. Okay, let's try it with an impact. There we go. Got her.

Okay. I've got our shiny new cable unboxed. Let's uh, stretch that guy out. It's a braided cable.

See that. that's all we need to do. Transfer our bolt through. that guy in right there.

Tiger joint s good and then down on the left, we will probably pull thinking that one right there. We'll pull that stud out. You guys can't see there's no lumens there. That stud still can't see that stud right there.

We'll pull that guy out and put this other Loop behind it. Let's run this behind the harness so it's nice and clean looking. Run that down there. you go.

back that guy off. What is that? A 10? I Believe it's ten. Let's see 15, 14, 13, 12, and 10. it's not a trend.

Something else. not a 12. it is 11. So that tells me it's probably a standard 7 16.

Is that the conversion to 11 mils, 7 16s I Don't know. Someone knows. Unclear? Yeah, okay. now that's the the whole stud coming out.

I Really didn't want to do it like that. Um I don't have a nut that goes on there? Yeah. I'll just sandwich it in right there. That'll be fine in there.

Get back in there. Good. great. Get some torque on that other side.

Don't twist too much. A good way to take up some of the slack though. Look at that. That's good.

That thing's tucked out of the way. it's free to move around. Successful ground strap replacement complete, you know? I Almost forgot, we need to get the uh, the flush cuts out and uh, trim off those zip ties. See, it's really not a good look to just leave these things hanging out like that.

So we're going to get in there, make a nice good, clean cut with these flush cuts. Way there we go and we'll do one more right over here on this one there. Yeah, we don't want this thing just, you know, sticking out all willy-nilly like. All right.

So this particular four liter Jeep suffers from the same syndrome that All Four Liter Jeeps suffer from. and that is the PCV hose becomes brittle and breaks away and leaves this hole. Uh, past the air filter into the intake and that's not okay. So we need to rectify this right now.

I Believe a replacement PCV or PVC crankcase ventilation PCB Hose is uh, somewhere in the vehicle. So we're going to get this thing removed as well and change it out with a replacement, not broken unit. That off? Yeah, I got PCV and PVC accidentally interchanged. Well, not really.

they're they're both in my, uh, daily vocabulary and I happen to cross them and get them confused because of words. Wait a minute. What is that? What is that? What is that? What is that private pile? That's a negative. We don't do that.

Not allowed to do this. That's a wire nut. It's good for emergencies. But no, no, no, we're We're gonna fix that later on.

Looks like the fuel injector harness has been replaced, the connector and that one's been wire nutted on. Yeah! I'm gonna I'm gonna unwire nut that later. All right, back to our part: Shelf Positive Crankcase Ventilation hose. Where are you I thought I saw one not here.

did I take it out Already there she is. We have a new used probably salvage yard special PCB hose and this one is not broken and cracked and whatnot. So we're gonna slip this guy right on to our valve cover or not. Get on there please.

I Know a little bit of lube would have helped, but sometimes you're not patient enough there. Get that one on Good. Oh there's the other half of the other one. See the tape.

They always have tape all right. So pivoting our attention back to this uh, oil filter housing adapter unit right here that's leaking. Uh, see any bolts that bolt this aluminum piece? that's a flashlight that are going to bolt this piece right here to the block so it's got to have like a center bolt. I Think show.

Let me get this flashlight there flashlight. Let me get this mirrored down there and see if I can't see it's not working out. Come on mirror, You're killing us. Yeah yeah I can see you right down at that mirror.

There appears to be looks like a Torx 55 or a 50. Yeah I think that's a Torx bit down there. Okay all right so clearly if we're going to be digging around down there, we need to make ourselves some space. So I'm gonna pull this coolant bottle out.

Set that aside Over Yonder here. Hmm, we've got some debris down there. What do you got? A pad for a battery don't need that and a cap for something? we might need that. Save that for later.

Let's see. let's move our flashing light. Oh there goes that T-55 Again, keep dropping the socket that I need. Thank you sir! I'm gonna try to work around this hose like I can kind of work through it I think but I have a problem here.

See that and this problem is that I cannot get this T55 Torx bit to line up properly because it's interfering with the frame rail right here. It wasn't touching that bolt, but it's hitting the frame. So I'm gonna need to, uh, either move the frame or move the bolt. So I think I'm gonna go ahead and have to pull out this engine mount bolt right here and then go underneath it.

this thing with the floor jack and jack the engine up until I can get some clearance I don't know if I can do it that way, but uh, that appears to be the only option here, so let's let's try that actually real quick. I'm going to try something. See, although that is a torx fastener, it's still a regular hex and it fits around a 10 millimeter wrench or socket. No problem.

I'm thinking maybe I can drive this piece out of the socket and then just slip that on there with a a wrench or a thinner socket over top of it. Let's try that real real fast. over to the bench. Let's see if I can't extract this and take it apart I could chop it off, but then I have to buy another one and I don't know if the time savings is equal or greater than the value of the part or the tool.

Rather so here, let's go back over to the vice. Put it in. you can put it in that little socket thing or the bolt thing over there on the adapter and then try to extract it without oh without removing the engine mount and it just might work. It might not, but it's worth a shot.

Let's get in there with a punch I don't know if it moved or not. Maybe keep doing it. Need a bigger hammer? Truth be told. I Wish I also had a fatter, larger diameter and shorter punch, but this is the only one that fits in there.

Did it move I think it's coming out? That could have been bad. Yeah, it came out cool. Now where'd it go? Foreign? There it is. That's what I'm looking for.

So now I can put this into that Fastener and then get over it with a uh, 10 millimeter low profile socket, saving some time. Sure, let's get that guy down in there. Well, hopefully it was a T-55 Oh No. I Think it might have been a T60.

That one's a little loose. No matter, you could do the same thing with another socket. I swear I Thought it was a 55. maybe it is.

Be back for you later. Okay, 560. that one. Okay, back to device.

Let's try this with the next size up. Doing it again. There it is. That's our 60.

let's see if this is the appropriate one. The last thing I would want to do is try one that's too small and then round that off because then we're we're Sol Oh yeah, look at that. torque 60 260 Fit in there just fine and some light in there. We've got plenty of clearance to get additional Tools in.

so let's try this method first. I Think that's probably going to be a 12 millimeter socket. Let's get into the no profile sockets here. there's a 12..

how's that fit like a glove? Look at that beautimous long ratchet for leverage. Let's go get this guy cracked loose. Okay socket Tip: device coming in torque 60 bit. rather.

there we go. Torque 60-bit and get down there with our 12 mil breaker. news. Oh it's that's a tight squeeze and it's not fitting.

All right. The ratchet's too thick. it's not gonna fit. That's fine.

We could always reconfigure because now we've got a tool that goes on that fastener and I'm going to try to reconfigure with a wrench because if the socket's gonna fit, a wrench will surely fit this hose out of the way. There we go. Okay, let's see what it does. Unclicks.

Oh, that's tight. Nope. let's put a breaker bar on it. It's a jack handle.

Oh, come on with it. You're gonna come off or what. Man said what? That's uh, that guy is not coming out. That was a lot of torque right there.

That was scary. The wrench flexed so much that uh, I was interfering with the hose. It's AC hose that's here. Let's try it at one one different angle.

Maybe I can get her to come out. Am I gonna get defeated by a bolt? Hope not. Nope. Okay, come on.

this is annoying. Why are we doing this? Jeep Don't do this to me here. Let's try again. I'm gonna make an effort to get as much clearance and space as I possibly can.

here. our angle's a little sharper going in with my uh, my breaker Rod here. Maybe something's gonna happen. It's either going to come loose or I'm going to break the wrench or I'm going to break the uh, what you call it bit.

Come on. bending my wrench. no way. It's a Snap-On wrench too.

It's the Primo of the wrenches. Soon it's not coming out I Don't think it's gonna happen folks. I Really don't What was that? Something Did something? What was it did the Fastener turn and let's turn the wrench again. So I can maybe bend it straight this time.

Get on there. There we go. I think the Fastener might have came came free I Think yeah, it did. Sweet.

It turned all right. Victory is closer. much closer. Okay, okay, now that it's uh, we've broken the seal so to speak on that thing, I should be able to just get this out by hand now, right? Oh, come on.

Yeah, there it goes. Yeah, that's right. I got it. Oh cool, yeah.

this would have been a lot of fun trying to do this with. uh, the engine half bolted in I should probably get an oil drain now and put it down under there. so I'm not dumping oil all over the floor I was so preoccupied with whether I could do it I wasn't prepared to actually go in there and do it here. put that back in.

so we just got that one. Fastener and once I take that out, the whole housing and the filter will come out with it. That's good. Well this is going to be another one of those jobs where I gotta drag out like a hundred different tools.

So we're gonna speed this up with a shorter throw ratcheting, ratchet wrench. Now that it's broken loose, we're not going to require so much leverage so we can switch out to some more speed. so buckets down there. It's just gonna unthread this guy right here.

I Hope those gaskets that are in that package are the correct ones because there's no way. Come on, there's no way. I'm putting this back together with uh, if those gaskets are wrong I'm not gonna do that. There it is.

It's lubricated. put you right back in there. Going back in this is about to come off at some point. I Gotta figure out how to do this without dropping this whole filter because I don't know if there's like, uh, washers in there or you know, a crush ring or something.

Just want to make sure all these pieces stay intact because if the thing falls out and all the pieces fly out of it I may not be able to figure out how they go back together. Want to do that? Oh, it's murder on the back. gotta change positions here. Oh okay.

all right, that's fine. that's perfect. Thank you. Did you tell them what time? Yeah yeah.

I Don't wanna have them come over here and then leave again. I Don't get here until nine and then just Parts people like to show up super early if they can and I keep telling them we're not here until nine and they keep doing it. It's makes things difficult-ish Anyway, so we got the. It's because they get new cut, new people or someone forgets or they have a lot to do and they don't know.

look Troy Just cleaned the bench. sorry dude I didn't want to do that. Sorry. All right, it's okay.

I'll pay you over time. Hey, back to the Vice again for the most unorthodox way to change an oil filter that has ever been thought of. Put that guy right there, tighten it down unthread. There you go.

So there's our housing. That's what we're looking for now. I Just need to figure out how to get this Fastener out. So I can put a new seal on the other side of it.

I'm sure there's a seal here somewhere, right? Makes sense to me. So let's try. How are we gonna do this right? How are we gonna do this? I Guess we need to determine if well it comes out. It has to come out because it turns.

so let's hammer it out. Yeah, that'll work. We'll hit it with a hammer. It's not what you think, not like a regular hammer.

We'll just encourage it to come out. Yeah, look at there. there's an O-ring seal right here. see right there.

and I think there's another two o-ring seals. Yeah, there's another one right there. so we got to change those as well. Speaking of seals, I don't see the O-ring on the housing which tells me it's still back on the engine block.

So uh, let's go fetch that thing real fast. So I don't forget and double gasket this unit. Oh yeah, that's our leaker. Definitely look at this look how brittle that was.

Oh, gravity. There used to be a Rubber seal and now it's plastic and brittle. Okay, all righty. I've got my Fell Pro gasket set here.

It's a part number Es that's Echo Sierra Seven, two niner, six, two in case anybody wants to get one for their Jeep This guy opened up and we've got several gaskets in here. Clearly the big one is the block to adapter and then we've got these smaller ones here. probably two different designs. Let's go ahead and pick these.

uh, these O-rings off of this stud here and then, um, we'll get them changed out first. I Should like to clean this unit up a little bit. just give it some brake. clean.

The oil is a thing. all right. Miniature pocket pry bar to the rescue. Get in there behind that O-ring rotate Walk It Out that one and this is the big one.

This one actually looks okay, but since we appear to have new ones, we're going to change it around. There we go and that's our large one. Slide that guy right on there we go. and then the small one.

I Think that's our small one Dipper Same procedure. Slide it on. Good to go Encore The red can. that's that good stuff.

Make it nice. tiny, shiny here. foreign. ER Wipe it off, it's still got some brake clean on there.

There we go. wipe that off and lubricate it with some uh, engine oil filter oil just a wee bit. Drop that guy back in and I don't want to shove it in just tearing the O-rings There we go. Nice.

Okay, that's in good to go. Let's get this thing installed back onto our engine block. Mr Troy Will you? Uh, Will you go down there with the drain bucket and grab a tool and just pull the drain plug out of this engine and drain the oil out of it because we have some oil in there on the floor. We're going to refill it with the new stuff, especially since we're putting on a new filter element Troy is down below pulling our drain plug out.

It's gonna be a team effort on this and we need to get this thing back in position. You guys see that little notch in there, a little cut out that is going to ride on this pin. There's a pin sticking out. it's going to ride on that pin and uh, help to keep this thing centered so it doesn't rotate as we attempt to tighten.

It Down Troy Watch your face in case that thing falls out. Okay, okay, I don't want to hit you in the Noggin Okay, we're squeezing in. Kind of same type of maneuvering situation as our removal process except if I drop something I hit Troy in the face I Don't want to do that. Oh, you're up here now.

Good you're safe I Still don't want to drop anything. Let's get this thing started and threaded. Got to keep two hands on it until that pin comes into alignment with. uh, that little Notch that it rides in Troy is watching with the greatest of enthusiasm because this is Jeep things that he has yet to encounter in the wild, right? Troy What do you say? Did you ever do this before? No, actually.

But now you know that these oil filter housings can possibly leak and you also know that getting that bolt to come loose is incredibly difficult and it appears that I've cheated the system by not pulling the engine mount off. Don't let the warranty clerk find out they'll change the flat rate hours. Yeah, that's a real thing. The dealership warranty adjusters are watching social media and when they find that people are posting like cheats and hacks to get a job done, they're going through and adjusting the uh, the warranty time and paying them less money effectively.

Yeah, yeah, so they're punishing technicians for being better at their job by paying less money like that's how that's working out. It's not nice, that's not okay. That's why our industry has this massive technician shortage and we can't recruit. Yeah, Okay, so in the spirit of how this came apart, I'm gonna tighten that Fastener down pretty much the same way it came out.

You put a breaker bar Jack handle on it and send it. see what happens. if I can get the thing back in the hole, be taking off. Okay, See, in a couple hours have conflict with the hose.

There we go. All right. let's get some more torque on this little guy. Then we'll come in with the with the Jack handle.

finish it. now. if I recall, it was tightened to the point of nearly bending or it did Bend my wrench and I'm gonna try to not torque it to that extent. There we go.

All right. that's enough. That's enough. Not going any farther.

that's that's a hundred foot pounds at least. at least. no problem. I Just dropped all my tools Gravity Oh Come here.

Flashlight: I dropped that bit too. that's down there somewhere. Flashlight recovery good. Okay Engine oil filter.

it's coming in. We need to squeeze this past our AC hose and move the hose and go farther past it. Flip it around, thread it on and yeah. I put some oil on on that O-ring It's okay.

it's a Wix filter. Let's get that guy in. Become tight now. please.

There we go. Click. It's achieved All right. Get somewhere.

I'm getting a lot. We just need to get it clean because I Spilled oil Long rain Shining Hey Mr Troy Will you grab the uh, the oil out of the truck and fill the crank case? please? Washed all that nasty off of there dude. Okay, let's get our coolant bottle back down inside of its little home. There nudges in I Think it hung out like right here.

We'll slide these little tabs back. I think I need to put some push Clips in that. Yeah, we'll do that later. What do you mean? they're gonna give me crap for calling it a truck.

This thing's not a truck. I I mean it's no Duramax or anything. but I still think it's a truck. It's not a car.

SUVs were made originally off of a truck chassis. you know, like the Broncos and the K5 Blazers They took Silverados and made the SUV out of them. those were first SUVs Yeah uh. there was the uh, what would they call that thing the um, oh, the Suburban The old Chevy Suburbans has been around for decades, like multiple generations of suburban.

So kind of based on the origin of the term SUV this still counts as a truck. uh, in my opinion. but those are the trunk by definition have to have a bed on it. I Don't think so.

if I take the bed off of my truck, does it no longer become a truck? Ah yes. okay. I mean you could put a bed on this. You just chop it off with Sawzall and put a bet on it.

So then it would become a truck. See, it's still. it's a truck-like platform like. That's what I'm thinking.

We got a truck-like platform. and it's not a car. So I'm gonna call it a truck if I've called Hyundai's trucks before and gotten away with that. Yeah I mean it didn't go very well in the comment section.

but I I Kind of got away with it here. Don't want to lose that flashing light there we go. Here's our underneath: View we got a Nader We got our fan engine mounts. pretty typical for an old Jeep truck.

Jeep truck incoming funnel action. He uses funnels I just send it. Oh for the best I Like to not waste out my oil. Yeah, it takes years of spilling oil to pour the oil fill the oil since yours is going oil.

let's go more oils in there? Yeah, all right, it's 10 Winter 13. So what was that cap doing? Did it work? Yeah, yeah. I picked it up enough. Okay Engine oil spilled.

Begin engine stocking sequence Now please. Foreign: I Can't believe that joke does not work on him. It's the internet's fault, it has exposed our treachery and now it's not a surprise. Anyway, it's actually a real knock.

Don't do that. Sorry. yeah, we're gonna add more engine oil. We need more.

Fill it up Not. you can't even handle it. Oh man. I'm horrible actually.

I Can say that a couple things allows me to say that. Number one, it's a free country and say whatever you want within reason. And number two, the beauty of this entire business is: we often have terms and names for things that, uh, normally you couldn't say that, but in the proper context, you can say that whoa. Now I'm not actually going to say those words right now because that is a you know you can't say that kind of situation and without the proper context, it'll just look like I'm using uh, the conversation at hand to be able to just use those words on the internet land.

So I'm not going to say them. But I promise you that when the the moment arises, I I will be able to say that. For example: um, you get a trouble code p0014 uh, Camshaft exhaust, Camshaft Bank one position you see like that's that's a legitimate term, but you can't just run around saying it. You got to have the right context.

Otherwise, you're you're not okay. And seriously, you guys, that's that's what's written down. That's the that's what it's called. There's Advanced And then there is advances.

Before Top Dead Centers is after Top Dead center. it's the proper use of the word. and that's one of those words that we do have to use. but in the proper context it's okay, not in proper context.

Um, Canceled. Fired. All right guys. We're gonna restart this one more time.

going a little closer. Troy's gonna do the honors and we're just gonna check for some seepage. Uh, you never know I could have could have broke a gasket or something. So go ahead man.

begin engine starting foreign. The gasket's compressed and flat oil filters on it's primed oil's been changed. Let's see, we topped it off and what else do we do? this thing? PCB Hose not PVC fix the ground wire some bonus stuff with a wiring harness. A little bit more work to do on this thing in the future, but as of right now, it's in the day so we're going home.

We're closing the shop and that means I'm closing up this video. I'll do that as always by thanking you guys for watching this video, especially since you're here all the way to the end since you are here all the way to the end. I'm going to assume that you like this video and it, in fact, my assumption is correct. Please confirm that to me by tapping that like button down below If you're so inclined, drop a comment or two while you're down there.

But most importantly, have yourselves a fantastic day. See you guys later in the video in the Jeep interval change into gasket in the transmission. Hey, you made it all the way to the end. Listen: I was just kidding about these zip ties I would never do that.

You always got these guys off flush or flat, never at an angle. Show us in this world.