Adding motor oil to engine

If you own a Honda like me, you would know how it would roll like my kayak
rolls in the ocean. When the 'oil light' on my Honda lit during cornering, it
means that the engine is a quart low. A few seconds of low oil pressure during
partial throttle is not going to kill an engine. I've done this regularly with
my Honda.

 

Two words: "baffled sump"

nate

 

Well of course but in a Beetle engine? There's no sump and yes, I know
that there were aftermarket baffles but you had to split the crankcase to
get them in.

Rgds, George Macdonald

"Just because they're paranoid doesn't mean you're not psychotic" - Who, me??

 

I checked my oil level this morning with the engine cold, and it is
actually 1/8" over the full mark. I guess this is because I filled up
the oil while the engine was warm. Do you guys think that is "close
enough", or should I really drain that 1/8"?

 

Oil level I believe should go *DOWN* when the engine cools, not the other
way around. Matter expands as temperature goes up.

I would gather it is more a case of all the oil is in the pan cause it
drained down during the night. Checking the oil when the engine is running,
or just recently shut off, not all of it is in the pan.

Check your oil again with the engine warmed up and running (or recently shut
off) and base your decision as to what to do on what you find then. I
suspect you won't have to do anything.

 

Whoa.

 

if it would harm your motor it already occured. Let it be, but check every day
so it won't raise more ( by fuel or water mixing)

Oil level will go up when engine cools. Reason is that all oil accumulated in upper
regions will sip down, which might take some time. Oil will certenly reduce volume
a little , but your engine will also reduce it's oil-pan volume during cooling.

You cannot check oil while it's running. Stop engine, wait for a while, then check.

 

alan wrote in rec.autos.misc

Leave it. It's close enough, and if you have to add oil between
changes, it will go down on its' own. If not, it isn't high enough
to worry about.



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I checked my oil level this morning with the engine cold, and it is

Drain oil if it is more than 1/2 quart overfilled. Otherwise, not
enough to worry about.

JM

 

Which is MORE than offset by the fact that it takes time for all the oil
to finish dripping back into the bottom of the pan. Engine oil should be
checked with the engine OFF for at least 5 minutes (longer is better)
before checking. Cold or hot doesn't matter- the expansion of the oil is
not significant- much less significant than in an automatic transmission.

 

Yes, I addressed how there is more in the pan after the engine has been off
for a while in the part of my response you snipped out like so...

The part you address above is my merely commenting on what oil (or any other
matter) does based on temperature.