Oil Over-Fill
12-05-2002, 06:18 AM
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Oil Over-Fill
Changing oil last weekend I accidentally went beyond the specified 5.3 quarts in my 97A6QA, and added about an extra 1/3rd of a quart for a total of close to 5.7 quarts.
Should I go to the trouble of draining off the excess? The dipstick show the level about 1/8th of an inch above the "do not add" line.
Where does this excess oil go? Does it do any harm?
Should I go to the trouble of draining off the excess? The dipstick show the level about 1/8th of an inch above the "do not add" line.
Where does this excess oil go? Does it do any harm?
12-05-2002, 10:13 AM
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Re: Oil Over-Fill
The only problem that you could have from overfilling would be "frothing", where the crankshaft whips air into the oil. But you'd probably have to add over a quart extra for it ever to be an issue.
12-07-2002, 07:11 PM
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I didn't worry about it and now it has a leak
of course I had a bit more in there than I should have. I was just lazy and didn't want to deal with it, well now I am paying for it
Ugg..
Ugg..
