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  • Too much oil in the car and now it's stopped working.
  • Frankenstein
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    My old man overfilled mine a bit and caused oil leaks in the rocker cover (new gasket and sorted).

    Far too much oil? Drain (some) of the oil when engine is cool/cold.

    glenh
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    MidlandTrailquestsGraham – Member
    A bit of oil getting pushed into the inlet won’t trouble a diesel…

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_engine_runaway

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zx3qKX_Pno

    Yeah, I said ‘a bit’, not half a gallon 🙂

    Doesn’t that normally happen with blown turbo oil seals anyway, where the turbo is blowing oil into the inlet, rather than a little overspill?

    Edukator
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    A litre over a sump is about 2cm and will make naff all difference even if you really throw the machine around. Engines are designed to cope with overfilling, oil surge and being run a bizarre angles.

    An old gneration Cooper S I had with minimalist piston rings had quite a thirst. Overfilling by a litre meant it would just about get to the next prtrol fill up without running dry (a cental pick-up pipe helped).

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