what are the con sequences of over filling a engine with oil , about a inch a bove the mark on dip stick
grab an old squeezey bottle shove some old fuel tube on squeeze bottle then while holding it squeezed pop pipe into oil fil and suck out some oil. rinse and repeat till you got the correct amount. 1: adds resistance to the engine making it work harder. 2, can get whipped up frothy and hinder pump working or build pressure in sump to a point it fails and blows through seals 3 excess oil can end up in airfilter via the breather tube either way its not a great idea so get that puppy out and corectly levels buddy No bottle get someone to grab a mcdonalds straw, grab a cloth and put it over the area ( its messy) , pop straw into the sump via dipstick hole cover end with finger and draw it out, dump the oil held in straw into a pot, ( do this about 10 then wait a min or so and check level with dipstick )
Ive seen an engine hydro lock from too much oil... If its that cub it not a problem, they can take over half a liter extra without it being too full, if you saw the motor with the casings off you would know what i mean
Oh wait thats a shaftie, im not sure on those motors, best to drop some out using a syringe or something
I don't know if I made the fact clear its not that bike in the picture its my van bit of a red herring putting a bike photo up but its not very interesting a photo of a berlingo any way the van blow out smoke made a bang ing noise then stopped after checking the oil level it was a good inch and a half over the max mark just wondering what to do next scrap or repair
find out next week as to what my next move is , what I can not explain is how there's to much oil in it im very particular about checking my oil levels
Many years ago I used to work at a Fiat dealer. We sold a 500L (the now classic one) to a customer. A couple of weeks later we had a call to go out to it as it wasn't running properly and making a knocking noise. Initially it was a strange one and it wasn't until the woman customer mentioned that the water kept going down that we twigged. She used to own an old Morris Minor that needed the water topping up regularly so she was undoing the large filler cap on top of the engine and topping up with water lol For younger readers it was an air cooled engine and she had been topping up the oil with water until it had started to hydraulic. It didn't do any damage but we sniggered a bit lol
update today drained out some oil well all of it to check for metal fragments as there was none put some of it back in started the diesel van up all went well so off for a test run all well for three minutes then clouds of white smoke loud clicking noise and loss of power five minutes to calm down and it started up and limped home were after a cup of tea we started it up again same thing again ticked over lovely revved it smoke again only this time when I turned ignition off the engine carried on running even revving its self up several times at one time I thought it would blow up after a minute or so it stopped with that we put the bonnet down and went in doors got any ideas
Yeah, diesels do that if you over fill them, runaway diesel, search the net you will see what i mean. You probably blew some gaskets overfilling it, thats what hydrolocking a motor does...
Could be any of the following after a hydrolock: Head gasket, Valve seals, Piston rings, Bent rods, Warped head, And pretty much anything else. Doesnt need a turbo to be a runaway...
well its solved van is up and running fine , the trouble was me I fitted new heater plugs while doing this I dislodged a rubber pipe thinking it went on one of the retune points on the injectors in fact it should have gone on the pump and a blanking piece went on the end injector once tis was replaced on the right place I took the van out for a run smoked like a steam train for a few miles then cleared very lucky as it could have exploded lesson learned take photos before you dismantle anything thanks everyone for your input
At least the inside of the block will be nice and clean with all that fuel running around inside it Had a similar problem with fuel in the oil on my porsche. Turned out the air intake balance plate had shifted slightly stopping the injectors shutting off fully. So overnight (and days when not used) the fuel was trickling into the cylinders, soaking past the rings, and settling in the sump mixing with the oil. Fired it up one day, petrol coming out the air filter housing, and I mean loads of petrol. The simplest of things to fix cause such major headaches.
