Oil light came on today.
Wife took car took a shop to add some oil.
he added 4 qts.
We called Nissan...Car only takes 3.6 qts
Having 2 or so too many qts in the motor is how bad?
car is scheduled for an oil and filter change first thing in the morning, anyway.
KT
'03 Nissan Altima 3.5 ( SIX )
yeah man....if you overfill it it all flows to the last 2 cylinders and you have a four...
half quart...i dunno.
two....
QUOTE (bd1308 @ Sep 13 2005, 06:20 PM) |
yeah man....if you overfill it it all flows to the last 2 cylinders and you have a four... half quart...i dunno. two.... |
I wouldn't think it would be that big of a deal.
.4 quarts overfill
Oh, I re-read the post. So why not drain some out.
Overfilling a modern engine can, and will, eat up the converter, the MAF, the O2 sensor, and various and sundry other bits. I wouldn't drive it around the block if it had more than .25 qt. over the mark. The Cap'n
Overfill is not reccomended, as Krusty points out. However, prudent engineering allows a 25% ( 100% in mission critical, 200 % in life critical applications ) redundancy. So, a quart I would remove as soon as possible but not sweat too much. Anything more than that I would not run the engine.
JN
Thanks for the tips...I went out and hammered the thing on the back roads and it through a rod.
J/K
I drained off about 2 quarts...all's well.
When my wife called me earlier with the oil light, I met her and checked the oil.
My friend with the auto shop was just around the corner so I sent her there alone.
Apparently, reading a dipstick is one of the more challenging procedures.
When she got home after about five miles of driving she told me about the four quarts.
I have lost all confidence in my mechanic of 15 years.
Hopefully no harm done.
KT
QUOTE (trekkor @ Sep 13 2005, 09:52 PM) |
Thanks for the tips...I went out and hammered the thing on the back roads and it through a rod. J/K |
QUOTE (Cap'n Krusty @ Sep 13 2005, 06:42 PM) |
Overfilling a modern engine can, and will, eat up the converter, the MAF, the O2 sensor, and various and sundry other bits. I wouldn't drive it around the block if it had more than .25 qt. over the mark. The Cap'n |
My new Nissan Frontier V-6 calls for 5.5 quarts, so I carefully poured in a half of the sixth quart. I wondered if I should have just dumped in the whole quart.
I had bought a case of 12 quarts, now I'm left with 6.5 quarts.
With the 914, I always use 4 quarts although the manual says 3.5 quarts.
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