Noah:
Noah:
Don't raise the bridge, lower the river! Get out and under, and drain the
oil. If you use a clean (as in clean enough to eat out of) drain pan, you
could reuse the proper amount of oil. Might be just as easy to get 5 qts. of
new stuff and take the drained oil to a recycling center.
Are you sure it didn't say 12 PINTS?
Paul
PS- this is called experience- I bet you NEVER do this again! ( ask me how I
got so experieced with LBC's}
on 10/1/01 8:49 AM, Freeman, Noah at nfreeman@baincapital.com wrote:
> Hello all-
>
> When performing my first ever oil change (yay!), I did a stupid...I looked
> in the owners manual, which said "refill oil from wet, 12 US quarts"...so I
> dutifully put in 12 quarts without checking the dipstick...I think I must
> have retained more oil than the owners manual took account of (in the
> filter, for example)...so when after a few minutes of driving to swirl it
> all around, I checked the dipstick, there was a ton too much oil (like I
> couldnt see the mark on the dipstick, it was so high)...
>
> Does this matter? What do I do about it (short of a 2nd oil change)? Is
> driving as normal, and just waiting for the level to drop naturally OK?
>
> As a side note, the switch from 10w30 (DPO oil) to 20w50 made a HUGE
> difference to oil pressure...I was really surprised...idle went from 15 to
> 20 psi at teh guage, 3K RPM went from 35 to 55...just postponed that rebuild
> by that many more years! Yay!
>
> What do people think of synthetic vs. natural oil?
>
> If I switch to $ynthetic, do I have to do some type of "flush" or can I just
> do a normal oil change?
>
> Thanks all!
>
> N
>
>
> -------------------------------------------
> Noah Freeman
> Brookside Capital/Bain Capital
> 111 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02199
> v 617.516.2922 f 617.516.2910
> nfreeman@baincap.com
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