Gentlemen,<br> I changed my oil last night and noticed that the previous oil change, I overfilled my crankcase by one quart. I use Shell Rotella oil, which comes in four quart bottles (I buy three bottles). Meaning that during the oil change I filled my oil filter with oil, then used the remainder to fill my crankcase. Which overfilled my crankcase by one quart. :-[ Yikes!!! Do you think I did any damage? I sure don't want to hurt my baby. :'( Help!!! [undecided]

 

I wouldn't worry about it. It's not like you filled it to the top of the valve cover ;D<br><br>Seriously though, IMHO there's so much splashing and surging in any engine when driving, I can't imagine one quart over (that's only about eight percent) would cause any damage. I would think that you may get some excess oil in the vent bottle up front. Did you check that?<br>

 

Sure did. No oil in the vent bottle. I check that every oil change. So far so good. 8)<br><br>[quote author=emjay link=board=4;threadid=17233;start=0#161356 date=1058538056]<br>I wouldn't worry about it. It's not like you filled it to the top of the valve cover ;D<br><br>Seriously though, IMHO there's so much splashing and surging in any engine when driving, I can't imagine one quart over (that's only about eight percent) would cause any damage. I would think that you may get some excess oil in the vent bottle up front. Did you check that?<br><br>[/quote]

 

IMHO the fact there is no excess oil coming from the vent should indicate that there is no problem. Had you overfilled it drasticaly there could have been a chance of foaming (crank hitting oil etc) and sundry other problems that may have surfaced.<br>Bottom line; Do not worry. Forget it.

 

When the 24v first came out, some of them ( mine included ) had a dipstick that was too short. This caused the crankcase to be overfilled by about 1 quart. DC said the only consequence was possible spillage in extremely rough terrain, like 4 wheeling. I`d forget it &amp; drive on.

 

Been putting three gallons in mine at oil changes since new, never had a problem.

 

Never tell a man his dipstick is too short!

 

[quote author=emjay link=board=4;threadid=17233;start=0#161431 date=1058548223]<br>Never tell a man his dipstick is too short! <br>[/quote]<br><br> ;D