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Hi,
2000 XJ Auto 120,000, stock miles
My Army brat kid's jeep is acting up. He's out on training so I don't have all the details but here is what I know.
Had synthetic oil in it. (first time ever, as far as I know)
When he left my house it was running rough, ran great the day before.
Shrugged it off, drove to gas station filled up and checked the oil.
Oil was gunky, not white, black.
Drove immediately to get oil change, guy said he had never seen oil look like that. thick.
Drive it home for 2 hours ran fine good pressure,
Pressure dropped to zero, beeper went off, pulled over, shut it off, towed it home
tried to start it a few hours later, it will crank but not start.
it's in his apt. parking lot, he's gone for a week.
ideas?
I'm thinking the synthetic oil cleaned all the gunk form the engine and the filter is choking on gunk? How about the oil pump? Does that have a screen on it?
Should he just put a new filter on it and add a few quarts and drive it to the dealer one mile away?
Why wont it start? Is there some special restarting sequence.
Thanks, everyone.........
2000 XJ Auto 120,000, stock miles
My Army brat kid's jeep is acting up. He's out on training so I don't have all the details but here is what I know.
Had synthetic oil in it. (first time ever, as far as I know)
When he left my house it was running rough, ran great the day before.
Shrugged it off, drove to gas station filled up and checked the oil.
Oil was gunky, not white, black.
Drove immediately to get oil change, guy said he had never seen oil look like that. thick.
Drive it home for 2 hours ran fine good pressure,
Pressure dropped to zero, beeper went off, pulled over, shut it off, towed it home
tried to start it a few hours later, it will crank but not start.
it's in his apt. parking lot, he's gone for a week.
ideas?
I'm thinking the synthetic oil cleaned all the gunk form the engine and the filter is choking on gunk? How about the oil pump? Does that have a screen on it?
Should he just put a new filter on it and add a few quarts and drive it to the dealer one mile away?
Why wont it start? Is there some special restarting sequence.
Thanks, everyone.........