2004 Liberty Oil light came on before stalling...

[PJeep25]

Hi everyone. I have a 2004 Jeep Liberty Sport with 173k miles. Today at random I pulled out of a parking lot after filling my tank and my liberty randomly while was driving had the oil light come on and so I thought my oil was maybe low so I went to pull over and then realized my power steering was off and that the car had shut off. I was able to get off to the road, I waited a minute and then it started back up, oil light off and drove like nothing happened. I was in a rush and had to get to work so I didn't check the oil and just assumed I was low because I have a small oil leak and put oil in before I went off to work. Ive driven it about 30 miles since and nothing happened. I checked my oil after work and now Im way over so definitely wasn't low oil. Anyone know what could have caused this? Thanks.

 

[renegade 04]

It sounds like the oil pressure regulator may have gotten a piece or junk in it and then you lost oil pressure. I would change the oil and also check the oil pressure with a gauge.

 

[LibertyTC]

So basically the engine stalled and re-started fine. Strange that would happen right after filling up, bad gas? add water remover?
KJ's like new NGK ZFR6F-11G (gap.040") spark plugs every 30k miles, when was the last time you had new plugs in there?
How far above the fill line is the oil on dipstick? Don't want it too full for cavitation reasons, may want to remove some?

 

[tommudd]

Two different issues, well 3 really
KJ is burning some oil, so check it every 2 to 3 days and fill to safe zone
oil pressure switch is bad possibly, replace with a MOPAR unit only
stalling, could of been as simple as a cough, burp,it shut off and was good to go again
Keeping up on maintenance is number 1 to do with any vehicle, keeping fresh spark plugs ( NGK coppers ) fuel system clean, oil changes etc are all things you have to do
Overfilling oil and running it anytime at all is never a good thing, you never just dump some in and go being late for work is better than a blown motor or something like that

 

[PJeep25]

Two different issues, well 3 really
KJ is burning some oil, so check it every 2 to 3 days and fill to safe zone
oil pressure switch is bad possibly, replace with a MOPAR unit only
stalling, could of been as simple as a cough, burp,it shut off and was good to go again
Keeping up on maintenance is number 1 to do with any vehicle, keeping fresh spark plugs ( NGK coppers ) fuel system clean, oil changes etc are all things you have to do
Overfilling oil and running it anytime at all is never a good thing, you never just dump some in and go being late for work is better than a blown motor or something like that

Thank you for the response. Just put 6 new spark plugs in today, put seafoam in actually minutes before this happened and got an oil change 3 days before this happened. I keep up with everything so hopefully again its something small like a switch or just a hiccup. I plan on fixing the gasket that is leaking next week so when I drain the oil then I can get it back to the right levels.

 

[tommudd]

Not a big fan of seafoam personally, but some claim it helps
Which plugs did you use ?

 

[PJeep25]

Not a big fan of seafoam personally, but some claim it helps
Which plugs did you use ?

I just use the sea foam periodically in case it helps. Don’t actually know but I figured it doesn’t hurt and is only 7 bucks.

I didn’t see the suggestions on here for spark plugs unfortunately because I bought them before the stall happened. I got Autolite Copper plugs.

 

[tommudd]

I just use the sea foam periodically in case it helps. Don’t actually know but I figured it doesn’t hurt and is only 7 bucks.

I didn’t see the suggestions on here for spark plugs unfortunately because I bought them before the stall happened. I got Autolite Copper plugs.

Tells you on the radiator crossmember which plugs to use
But Autolite coppers will last for a while, NGK is always the best for these 3.7s, then Champion and last Autolites ( all coppers of course )