I won't give up

I was driving home from Spokane last night and my jeep started to miss and run like crap. It stalled at an intersection and luckily it fired up again so I was able to make it home, but it had me pretty stressed out. So I went to my uncle Mike's house today to do a diagnostic check. 

He helped me identify that I needed to do a tune up and also change the Throttle Positioning Sensor and I should be good to go.

So I got the parts I needed and started to get to work. The tune up was pretty easy, but changing the sensor was another story. I did the tune up first because I thought it would be harder than the sensor change. The sensor has two screws and all I had to do was change out the sensor. Sounds easy right? Wrong.

It's funny how when you're feeling pretty good about something, something else always knocks you down.

I had a million hex wrenches to work with, but zero torx so I had to borrow one from the neighbor. He was great and let me borrow a torx bit. I used it and I also broke it. I had to give it back to him busted up. The screws were rusted tight, but I managed to loosen one.  The other one would not budge, therefore breaking his bit.

Then I went and bought a torx key set and torx bits and tried again. No Luck. I spent a long time trying and trying again to break the screw loose, but nothing. At this point I am really really missing Dean.

I sprayed some WD40 on the screw and I will try again tomorrow, but I will not give up.