too much oil

SILINC3R · Post by **SILINC3R** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 7:51 am

so i went to go snowboarding yesterday and the trip was about a 3 hour drive so beofre i got going i went to fell up and buy dome oil. my car was still making the clicking noises like it does when it is low on oil so i baught 2 quarts of oil, filled up both and was off. as soon as i left the gas station i could tell something was wrong. i couldnt get past 3000 rpms not in 1st, 2nd, or any other gear.i didnt know what going on.when i would try to push it over 3000 it would start bogging down and bouncing around so i just kept it under 3000. found a neighborhood to pull into and thats when all hell broke loss. if you have done seafoam or seen pictures ( i am still trying to upload mine) you know how much smoke it produces. well this was like 3 times worse. i sat there and reved the engine a couple times and more a nd more smoke was coming out. it was night time so i couldnt see what color it was but im sure it was the oil. i popped the hood and tried to see what was going on. there was just smoke coming from every where it seemed. well i decided i would press on for a couple more miles and see what would happen, so i got back on the road and i still couldnt get over 3000. now a car was behind me so i tried to get going and then the car was gone. it got totally smoke out so i had to pull over once again and try and rev what ever it was doing out.i ended up getting to the highway and it had settled down after a while. no smoke and i was crusing at around 70 with no problems. i made it to the ski resort and popped the hood again since it was day light now. then i saw the wierdest thing. oil had leaked out of my intake. so upon this observation i came to the conclusion that i had indeed filled the car up with to much oil and the reason for the smoke was that some how it was getting dumped straight into the intake where it was getting burnedd off.
so how did the oil get burned like that and why did it leak out of my intake?
what harm could i have done and what should i do now. if i hurt this car from something as stupid as this i will be upset cause it has been through a lot more.

-thanks,

tturnpaw · Post by **tturnpaw** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 2:05 am

That's possible. Never fill the oil without checking it. You're lucky in any case it didn't build too much cankcase pressure and throw a rod out the block. Best thing to do is change the oil completely and put in what it takes (not sure if turbo or na is the same. Turbo is 4.8 qts) then run it for a while. You could have anything from a bad rocker to a blown head gasket.

SILINC3R · Post by **SILINC3R** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 4:23 am

yea i realize also that i had put in a quart of lucas oil stablizers and another quart about a week or a so ago so i am very lucky considering that i continued you drive it. it made the 300 plus miles alright though after the first problems.
i drained some of the oil today about 2 quarts and check the plugs and cleaned them as well as cleanout the intake and throttle body of oil so all should be well.

god i love my little subaru

tturnpaw · Post by **tturnpaw** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:06 am

Don't forget to come back so we can diagnose the other problems. Ironically, I suggest you sea foam through an intake manifold vacuum line. It will break down the oil so it can be run though instead of crystallizing. Brake cleaner works too the downside is replacing your plugs afterwords due to the residue.

Imprezive · Post by **Imprezive** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 5:13 pm

oil may have been sucked in by the crankcase breather or something.

Check your oil first man!

Buffman · Post by **Buffman** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 7:24 pm

lucas oil stabilizer pure garbage. it does nothing but thicken oil past what you need. get it out of there.

codfizzle · Post by **codfizzle** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 4:08 pm

I just gotta say it amazes me how many people have problems like this. Does anybody know what a dipstick is for? Why would somebody just add a bunch of oil and drive off without checking it first to make sure it's not overfilled? I don't mean to sound rude or cynical, but if you can't even take a look at your dipstick, you probably shouldn't be driving a vehicle.

Once again, I'm sorry if I sound rude, but there have been quite a few people on here lately with questions like "How do I know how much oil to put in my car?". To me, this is like asking "How do I put my car from neutral into first gear?". It's an extremely basic part of vehicle maintainence that every driver should know how to do. Basically what I'm saying is: CHECK YOUR DIPSTICK; IT'S THERE FOR A REASON! Don't add oil unless you check the level first and it needs oil. And especially don't add oil and then just drive off without checking it first. Just my 2 or 3 cents.

SILINC3R · Post by **SILINC3R** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 6:52 pm

lol thanks i fell better now. yea this little accident could have cost me my car but i guess it likes me too much. you would think i would have just check but it was clicking like it does when it gets low on oil, but sometimes i guess you just have to learn the most basic lessons in life. like not being retarted

Skruyd · Post by **Skruyd** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 5:08 am

codfizzle wrote:I just gotta say it amazes me how many people have problems like this. Does anybody know what a dipstick is for? Why would somebody just add a bunch of oil and drive off without checking it first to make sure it's not overfilled? I don't mean to sound rude or cynical, but if you can't even take a look at your dipstick, you probably shouldn't be driving a vehicle.

Once again, I'm sorry if I sound rude, but there have been quite a few people on here lately with questions like "How do I know how much oil to put in my car?". To me, this is like asking "How do I put my car from neutral into first gear?". It's an extremely basic part of vehicle maintainence that every driver should know how to do. Basically what I'm saying is: CHECK YOUR DIPSTICK; IT'S THERE FOR A REASON! Don't add oil unless you check the level first and it needs oil. And especially don't add oil and then just drive off without checking it first. Just my 2 or 3 cents.

Just be happy our cars comes with an oil dip stick. Some cars don't * hack, hack, BMW, sneeze*. So the unfortunate happens. Either wait till the oil light comes on, go and get an oil change, or go to the dealership and ask them to check your oil.

SILINC3R · Post by **SILINC3R** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 5:33 am

my oil light has never come on so i dont know if it works

PhyrraM · Post by **PhyrraM** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 5:39 am

SILINC3R wrote:my oil light has never come on so i dont know if it works

Turn the key to 'on' but don't start the car. The light should be on untill you crank it over.

Buffman · Post by **Buffman** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 7:27 am

yeah but that's a low oil pressure light. You wait for that sucker to come on you'll have other problems...

codfizzle · Post by **codfizzle** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 2:42 pm

Buffman wrote:yeah but that's a low oil pressure light. You wait for that sucker to come on you'll have other problems...

Yeah that light won't come on until you're down to about 2 quarts of oil, by which time a good many other problems have probably arisen. And once again, i reiterate my original point: if you need to bring your car to the dealer to find out how much oil you have in it because you can't just take a look at the dipstick yourself, then you shouldn't be driving (or you drive a BMW).

Buffman · Post by **Buffman** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:37 pm

well I'll admit checking the oil o these cars isn't easy. It seems the oil likes to sit in the top half of the block for longer than usual. I wonder perhaps if that's why these don't have oil level sending units for low oil level in the pan? (my 91 ranger had one and most cars do)

I know my car doesn't leak much if any oil. It burns oil but only if you're doing 6000+ rpm and even then it's very light. Yet it seems like the dipstick tells me I never have any oil in the pan....

gijonas · Post by **gijonas** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 4:03 am

are you guys kidding?? these cars can totally run on one quart of 3 year old oil for months at a time and be fine.Dont ask how i know.

evolutionmovement · Post by **evolutionmovement** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 4:52 am

How little oil do you need? My 1983 sedan (EA81) had a bad rear main leak that was really annoying. I went out camping with it, already low, for the weekend driving 250 miles to VT. Couldn't find anything but 2-cycle oil anywhere up there. Drove with the speedometer needle on the P in MPH (somewhere around 110 going by gearing) much of the way back while dicing with an asshole in a Grand Cherokee (wow are those things shit!). Don't think I went under 80 at all. Got home, threw in a quart. Nothing on dipstick. Another quart. Nothing. Another. There we go! And another half brought me up to the line. I had less than a quart in there. Drove the car another year without issue until half a tree fell on it while I was driving down the street. Radiator cracked, fan dead, hood caved in, I still drove it for a few months until I found another car (Legacy). Would've driven to the junk yard, but I yanked the steering wheel, so it was towed.

codfizzle · Post by **codfizzle** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 3:01 pm

gijonas wrote:are you guys kidding?? these cars can totally run on one quart of 3 year old oil for months at a time and be fine.Dont ask how i know.

Just because our cars have the ABILITY to do this doesn't mean it's GOOD for the car. I tend to prefer NOT neglecting the shit out of my vehicles, they tend to last a tad longer and work a tad harder. And if you're driving around with 1 quart of 3 month old oil in your engine for months at a time, you obviously neglect the shit out of your car. I know what these cars are capable of, but that doesn't mean that it's good to push them like that all the time.

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