isuzu trooper

scaletec

Wondering if anyone can help me. I drive a 2001 isuzu trooper 3 litre. On a recent journey it let me down for the 1st time ever. It just cut out , leaving me thinking i had a dirty diesel filter. After trying to start it twice i realised it was a push job to get it in off the road. After getting help to push i soon saw that it was a more serious matter.(i was greeted with a large pool of engine oil under foot). To cut a long story short when i got it to my mechanic the problem turned out to be that the oil filter was almost unscrewed completly. Last service on the jeep was nine months previous so it's not that the filter was recently handled(i hope). No-one i have asked has ever heard of a filter loosening itself. Can anyone shed any light
on this?

Don't think i have any enemies-or at least none that would go to the trouble of lying under my dirty jeep ,take of the sump guard and loosen filter.

AsphaltRisin'

that sounds weird. could it have shaken loose? got a vibration problem from a broken engine mount or anything? thats thats even very unlikely and probably impossible.

is it goin again now?

scaletec

No, wasn't a mount. Did think of that myself and checked it out-all is o.k. The jeep is running again and to the best of my knowledge it's ok which i suppose is the main thing. Can't just shake the underlying feeling that it was caused by something more serious though. I'd love to be able to get to the bottom of it.

Farls

I'd say it was badly tightened to start with, strange it took so long to loosen itself though. Definitely never heard of this happening before, normally filters are damn near impossible to remove!

I'd definitely keep an eye on it for the next few weeks/months though.

Slidey

You are lucky it was a 3l trooper.

They need oil pressure to run, as it is oil that creates injection pressure at the injectors.

I would be concerned that the balance shaft may have suffered, it runs in an aluminum housing and has scoring issues at the best of times.