thrashin
08-11-2012, 06:11 AM
Hi All,
Thought I would share my recent experience with low oil level in my TJ wagon. I had a noisey lifter develop over a month or two, as well as what I thought was an ignition problem starting. What was happening is that from cold start, or warm, about 50% of the time, the engine would crank, fire and within a second, I'd hear a "click" in the cabin and the ignition would shut off. Most times the engine died, and upon restart would fire and run, no probs. On a couple of occasions, ignition would cut and then just before the engine stopped turning, the ignition would cut back in and engine would pick up and keep running no probs. Once the engine was running, it was fine.
All this had me thinking that I had to get the engine looked at, and then I decided to check the oil level.... it was down, waaay down. Long story short, I added approx 2.5L and a lifter treatment, took it for a run.
End result was the tappet quietened down completely AND after a week, I have not had one instance of this ignition problem - not a one. Previously this would happen to me about twice a day at least, to and from work).
So here's the thing; I have done alot of reading up, and from what I have seen, the Magna does not have a safety feature to cut ignition if oil level/pressure is low - but my experience is that low oil level/pressure resulted in consistent ignition cutoff.
Does anyone have a view, opinion, understanding or explanation of what I experienced (please don't give me shi*t for allowing the oil level to drop so low.. I know I was VERY lucky not to damage my engine! :eek2:)
Looking forward to hearing from you guys..
Thought I would share my recent experience with low oil level in my TJ wagon. I had a noisey lifter develop over a month or two, as well as what I thought was an ignition problem starting. What was happening is that from cold start, or warm, about 50% of the time, the engine would crank, fire and within a second, I'd hear a "click" in the cabin and the ignition would shut off. Most times the engine died, and upon restart would fire and run, no probs. On a couple of occasions, ignition would cut and then just before the engine stopped turning, the ignition would cut back in and engine would pick up and keep running no probs. Once the engine was running, it was fine.
All this had me thinking that I had to get the engine looked at, and then I decided to check the oil level.... it was down, waaay down. Long story short, I added approx 2.5L and a lifter treatment, took it for a run.
End result was the tappet quietened down completely AND after a week, I have not had one instance of this ignition problem - not a one. Previously this would happen to me about twice a day at least, to and from work).
So here's the thing; I have done alot of reading up, and from what I have seen, the Magna does not have a safety feature to cut ignition if oil level/pressure is low - but my experience is that low oil level/pressure resulted in consistent ignition cutoff.
Does anyone have a view, opinion, understanding or explanation of what I experienced (please don't give me shi*t for allowing the oil level to drop so low.. I know I was VERY lucky not to damage my engine! :eek2:)
Looking forward to hearing from you guys..