damage from too much oil?

Arg, I'm not sure about some mechanics. Gotta hold some ppl's hands no
matter what, I'm afraid.

Had my oil changed 3 days ago, I supply my own and filter. Gave the dummy in
the shop a 5qt. Mobil1 bottle and a K&N gold filter. Got the car back,
expecting 1 qt left in the bottle. SC2 holds 4qts, actually a little less
with the smaller K&N filter. I should have been suspicious when I didn't get
anything back, I should have checked the oil immediately!

Guess where the other quart went? right, in the car with the other 4. I now
have 5qt of oil in my SC2 and have been driving back and forth to work for 3
days. I will have them drain the other qt out tomorrow ASAP. Hope nothing
got damaged, should I be worried?
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marx404

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:27:07 -0500, BläBlä
. s!rcre4p.c0m> wrote:

>Aside from the crank being slugged down, no not likely. Like Lane said,
>its better to be a little over the line than a little under.


I doubt that crank is even being slugged by oil. It usually takes at
least a 50 to 75% overfill before problems develop. They are not as
sensitive to overfill as some would leave you to believe. I would be
tempted to leave oil in there unless you as constantly winding it to
max RPM and creating extra windage in crankcase.
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TheSnoMan.com

In article >,
says...
> Arg, I'm not sure about some mechanics. Gotta hold some ppl's hands no
> matter what, I'm afraid.
>
> Had my oil changed 3 days ago, I supply my own and filter. Gave the dummy in
> the shop a 5qt. Mobil1 bottle and a K&N gold filter. Got the car back,
> expecting 1 qt left in the bottle. SC2 holds 4qts, actually a little less
> with the smaller K&N filter. I should have been suspicious when I didn't get
> anything back, I should have checked the oil immediately!
>
> Guess where the other quart went? right, in the car with the other 4. I now
> have 5qt of oil in my SC2 and have been driving back and forth to work for 3
> days. I will have them drain the other qt out tomorrow ASAP. Hope nothing
> got damaged, should I be worried?

Aside from the crank being slugged down, no not likely. Like Lane said,
its better to be a little over the line than a little under.

I've been running a half to 3/4 of a quart over the full mark on the track
for years with no problems. I don't think I'd worry too much about a quart
on a street driven car.

Plus, the motor will "correct" that problem shortly, won't it? Seems that
most people have some oil consumption.

Lane [ lane (at) evilplastic.com ]
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"BläBlä" . s!rcre4p.c0m>
wrote in message ...
> In article >,
> says...
>> Arg, I'm not sure about some mechanics. Gotta hold some ppl's hands no
>> matter what, I'm afraid.
>>
>> Had my oil changed 3 days ago, I supply my own and filter. Gave the dummy
>> in
>> the shop a 5qt. Mobil1 bottle and a K&N gold filter. Got the car back,
>> expecting 1 qt left in the bottle. SC2 holds 4qts, actually a little less
>> with the smaller K&N filter. I should have been suspicious when I didn't
>> get
>> anything back, I should have checked the oil immediately!
>>
>> Guess where the other quart went? right, in the car with the other 4. I
>> now
>> have 5qt of oil in my SC2 and have been driving back and forth to work
>> for 3
>> days. I will have them drain the other qt out tomorrow ASAP. Hope nothing
>> got damaged, should I be worried?
>
> Aside from the crank being slugged down, no not likely. Like Lane said,
> its better to be a little over the line than a little under.

Thanks. Luckily, I have had no oil consumption issues on either this car or
my '94 SL2. I took it easy on the poor car and took it into the shop pronto
this morn. Had the dummies dump out the extra qt. I have checked it and so
far no problems. Maybe it's psycho-sematic butI can feel the difference
already.

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marx404