D'ohhh! I'm an idiot.

[Rich 89 Gr. Wag]

Two weeks back I posted that if I swerved a little on the highway, my oil pressure would drop to zero, then come back up. I never bothered to check the oil, figuring that my rig hasn't leaked or burned oil. You guys on the board figured the sensor might be bad.

Driving last night doing 70 mph, I heard a little lifter noise from the engine, looked down at the oil pressure guage and **** it was down. I stopped a mile later at a gas station and was two full quarts down. I picked up a couple quarts and was back on my way. Pressure stays up around 50 psi again.

Do you think I damaged anything being 2 quarts down and driving for (I'm guessing) 500-750 miles like that??

[brad_fsj10]

Not unless you heard expensive noises. Tickety-tickety-tick isn't the end of the road. Clackety-Clunk-Clackety-Thug-THUg-THUG... screech,,,,,, Is B.A.D.

I heard my lifters singing a little on my trip back from Denver when my valve cover gasket was leaking (badly). I eventually got tired of adding oil, stopped and replaced the gasket. I'm fairly sure no real damage was done, except to your "OH Great Googley MoogleyGreat Googley MoogleyGreat Googley MoogleyGreat Googley MoogleyGreat Googley Moogley" alarm. smile.gif

Every tank of gas....pull the dipstick and check the oil.

[skid2964]

Well, who's to say ... it certainly cannot be good. But will your engine die soon? I doubt it. You may have gotten some extra cylinder bore wear or slight valve train wear but probably not enough to damage anything extensively. Besides, as soon as you heard the lifter noise, you corrected the problem, so it may not have been in "damage mode" but for a very short time.

[skunked]

Likely not, just added more wear than you really wanted to. I would change the oil NOW as what you had probably got burned.

[Rich 89 Gr. Wag]

I'll do the oil change this weekend and thank the Jeep gods up in the sky that I'm still OK.

[wagoneer88]

Haha, sometimes with Grand Wagoneers its like "the boy who cried wolf." The gauges and sensors are so touchy and rarely perfect that when one is right you don't beleive it.