drain a quart
Too much oil in your engine will cause it to foam and not protect like it should be.
That’s like half a quart over, that’s perfectly fine and honestly if your car has over like 100k miles, it’s not a terrible idea to keep an extra half a quart due to some inevitably leaking out between now and your next change.
You have to overfill an engine by a LOT for it to start contacting the crankshaft and causing issues, like 2+ quarts extra.
Your holding it upside down take a picture with it the other way cause it looks to be running down the stick so hard to tell
Who did this? You or a shop? If it’s a shop turn back around and make them do it properly jeeze. If it’s you, I’d drain some yeah, that much extra can cause things to leak
Leaks no, high enough to get above the windage tray and cause the crank to aerate to oil. Definitely
There’s no chance an extra half quart will raise the oil that much. I’ve never seen an engine that didn’t have the space for an extra 2 quarts at least
Half a quart over is definitely into the crank??
Now would this be something of concern?
Yes, it can cause oil pressure drop and/or lubricity issues
Yea, it makes the oil froth up, and then it doesn’t lubricate correctly
Yes, but I think it’s that it can’t be pumped correctly by the oil pump and therefore will leave the parts of the engine starved of oil.
That’s more or less part of what I meant as well. It doesn’t lube properly because it’s foamy but also doesn’t flow.
If it leaks into your spark plug connector bays you will find out. Depends on the engine exactly what might happen.
Yes, because it introduces bubbles in the oil and causes it to lose some lubrication capacity.
But how much is too much depends on the engine and how much you go over the limit. It is unlikely to happen if you go half a quart over the limit.
Yeah pretty much every car is different from its capacity to its “bro you put in too much oil and now here’s some aeration in your shit”. I had a mustang that had a capacity of 5 but the crankcase could hold 7 without aeration. 4.6 2V modular
This was exactly why I asked. My car v6 takes 4.5 quarts, I buy a 5 quart jug every single time and with that I fill the filter totally up then dump the rest into the car, it’s always slightly over max.
Though since ownership the car has leaked a small bit of oil when doing oil changes at 5k miles I’ll get about 4 quarts back out, though I promise the other quart slowly is left in my driveway 😅 you can see every exact spot I’ve parked tiny little oil spot
Edit. I should also add that I’ve never noticed any froth or anything odd on my oil cap or in the oil either was just curious due to what I said above, thank you :)
Technically you shouldn’t pre fill filters unless the car has sat for along time. And if you do prefill filters you defiantly shouldn’t pour it in the big hole. You should slowly pour it into the side smaller holes and let it slowly filter through the material otherwise if you get shit in the big hole it will be going straight to your journal bearings.
The odds anything bad happens is super small if you are clean but better to be safe that sorry especially considering there’s enough residual oil in the engine that the 2 seconds at the absolute most it takes to fill the filter won’t be an issue.
But this is as far as I understand atleast. If a mechanic knows more please correct me but this is what I’ve always heard/done.
If it’s fresh clean oil then it doesn’t really make much of a difference which side you pour oil into but whatever makes you feel more comfortable. General opinion is that it isn’t necessary but prefilling doesn’t hurt and most mechanics I know do it as a just in case anyway.
Every time I’ve changed my own oil the filter had instructions to fill it with oil before installing it.
I thought oil flowed into the big hole where it screws in, was pressurized and the flows out the side holes.
This isnt that far over to cause leaks
It’s only half qt over, ain’t gonna leak,hell be fine even if he don’t Adrian it out, and being a. Cmary of that yr, it’ll be burned off Ina month and back to full
This is fine.
It’s less than half a quart over. It’s fine.
I don’t know why you got down voted. well yes, too much oil in an engine can cause issues. Being this little bit over is fine.
Glad you guys are saying this. I put an extra half quart in my toyota every oil change because it leaks about a half quart every 5000 miles. By the time I change it, it’s at the full mark or a hair below. I’m just always scared ill forget and let it run low. Lol
Going in half mark better than above the full
Damn now I wish I thought of that before I accidentally let my honda run dry
It won’t cause issues, but you should put the recommended amount in, if it’s slightly low when you change it that’s actually a completely normal thing. The oil is meant to burn off instead of your engine, it’s there to sacrifice itself
I’d argue it’s better to be half a quart over than half a quart under, you’re not going to negatively affect anything with that extra half quart.
That’s probably fine, but there is room for improvement for sure! You just don’t want to get the oil level high enough for the crankshaft to hit the oil.
eh thats fine
When did you check the oil? Did you keep the stick level or is this tilted while you read it? Is the engine hot? Was it sitting over night?
It’s over.
It’s a Camry. It’ll be fine
Mine will start to burn it after a 1/4 quart more than full. It depends on the engine.
Atleast hold it horizontly , holding like this could have made the oil flow downwards making it look like its overfilled
I have to assume if the oil line moved before it was taken OP wouldn’t have used this picture.
I say the same thing of every picture of a dipstick I see.
I can imagine somebody holding it like this, showing a clueless customer, and as the oil continues to drip down telling them “omg the oil level keeps on rising! Something is seriously wrong with your engine!”
Look at the car in the background, the picture is either taken from above or the car is on the wall.
The correct answer 👆
Lens is fish eye