 Too Much Oil?, I think I was too generous... |
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| marc_hines |
 Feb 19 2005, 04:02 PM
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Anal Software Engineer  Group: Benefactors Posts: 102 Joined: 13-November 03 From: Tigard, OR (Suburb of Portland) Member No.: 1,341   |
I changed to oil in my '75 2.0 teener just before garageing it for the winter.
Today I started it up and drove around the block. Crawled, more like. After Joe (my 911 neighbor who has has a few 914's also) and I looked at what was up, I realised that I have at *least* a quart to much oil in the engine. Normally, I have Micheal Jordan of Stuttgart Automotive do all my engine work, but I figured I could do an oil change myself just fine. The change - yes. The refill, well, that appears to be another story. Anyway - has anyone else ever done this? What is the best way to recover from it (other than have it towed it to Stuttgart Automotive and have them fix my mess, which I'll do if I can't correct this myself). Any one else been here before? Marc... |
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| rhcb914 |
Feb 19 2005, 04:25 PM
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member Group: Members Posts: 358 Joined: 3-February 04 From: Boston, MA Member No.: 1,626 |
I would just put the drain pan back under the car, remove the oil drain plug and count to 5. Put the plug back in and check the level. It's ok to over fill the engines a little. I usually go 4 quarts even and have not had any problems. Stock capacity is 3.5 liters about 3.7 quarts.
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| seanery |
Feb 19 2005, 04:45 PM
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waiting to rebuild whitey! Group: Retired Admin Posts: 15,852 Joined: 7-January 03 From: Indy Member No.: 100 Region Association: None |
i agree, just dump some and you should be ok.
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| redshift |
Feb 19 2005, 05:32 PM
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Bless the Hell out of you! Group: Members Posts: 10,926 Joined: 29-June 03 Member No.: 869 |
I dump 4 in, as per Darling Dave's instruction so long ago.
Oh... was winter oil too huh.... so, you crank the car, run it up to warm, and dump all that, and start over. Change it again! You actually fill the filter part way, before mounting it too. M |
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| Allan |
Feb 19 2005, 05:40 PM
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Teenerless Weenie Group: Members Posts: 8,373 Joined: 5-July 04 From: Western Mesopotamia Member No.: 2,304 Region Association: Southern California |
(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/agree.gif) Just change the oil again - done. Engine will like you better as well.
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| DJsRepS |
Mar 15 2005, 05:56 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 431 Joined: 4-November 04 From: Sarasota Florida Member No.: 3,060 |
Dump the oil filter 3 times.
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