Can I drive my car with a misfiring cylinder?
An engine misfire can be caused by bad spark plugs or imbalanced air/fuel mixture. Driving with a misfire isn’t safe and can damage your engine.
Is there a misfire code on the Jeep Liberty?
P0301 should be considered a cause for concern, and can be a threat to the drivability the Jeep Liberty. The one nice thing about P0301 is that it is a cylinder specific misfire code. This makes diagnosing the problems simpler than P0300, which means that the cylinders are randomly misfiring.
What happens when you misfire a cylinder in a jeep?
Heavy misfires will cause the CEL to flash. If you have heavy misfires, and the gas does not burn in the cylinder it can go out the exhaust and through the O2 sensor and Catalytic Converter and can damage them. So your one code for an O2 sensor being High Circuit might just be a symptom of the heavy misfires.
Where is the first cylinder on a Jeep Liberty?
An important thing to understand when finding the location of cylinder one is that it’s going to be the first cylinder in the firing order of the vehicle, and not the first cylinder that you might see when looking at the engine. The P0301 Jeep trouble code will trigger the Liberty’s service engine soon light.
What does p0301 stand for on a Jeep Liberty?
P0301 is a very common OBDII trouble code that appears in the Jeep Liberty. It stands for: P0301 should be considered a cause for concern, and can be a threat to the drivability the Jeep Liberty. The one nice thing about P0301 is that it is a cylinder specific misfire code.
P0301 should be considered a cause for concern, and can be a threat to the drivability the Jeep Liberty. The one nice thing about P0301 is that it is a cylinder specific misfire code. This makes diagnosing the problems simpler than P0300, which means that the cylinders are randomly misfiring.
Heavy misfires will cause the CEL to flash. If you have heavy misfires, and the gas does not burn in the cylinder it can go out the exhaust and through the O2 sensor and Catalytic Converter and can damage them. So your one code for an O2 sensor being High Circuit might just be a symptom of the heavy misfires.
What’s the problem with 4 cylinder Jeep Liberty?
I actually found the problem. In both the 4 cylinder and 6 cylinder Jeeps, the valve cover gaskets have a short life and as they encircle the spark plugs, oils leaks down on them and shorts them out. Gasket changed, problem solved.
An important thing to understand when finding the location of cylinder one is that it’s going to be the first cylinder in the firing order of the vehicle, and not the first cylinder that you might see when looking at the engine. The P0301 Jeep trouble code will trigger the Liberty’s service engine soon light.