I have slightly overfilled the oil on my car, how would you go about draining only a slight bit of it? Remove the oil filter and drain it a couple of times?>pic related
It's probably fine desu, if you're worried about it then loosen the drain plug a little bit and let it drain a small amount. Draining from the filter will probably cause a larger mess when it drips out but whatever just throw a bunch of cardboard or newspaper under the car when you do both.
>>2958994You don't get as much control with the oil filter as you would with the drain boltIf it were only that much I wouldn't worry about it anyway
>>2958994Emptied the oil filter twice, now it's a wee bit under the dot, crisis averted>t.op
>>29589960.3L overfill on a 3.3L capacity is still 9% over, idk what the margins on these things are. it is a japanese car after all
>>2958994I wouldn't even worry about it...
>>2958994first time i changed my oil i overfilled itbecause the front was on ramps i topped it up, got it flat, it was over. hadn't accounted for the angle.all i did was get some pvc hose, small diameter to fit into the dipstick hole, stuck it in, sucked it out, siphoned a little bit out. oil is thick so it took a very very long time like 10-15 minutes. and of course oil is bad for plastics and im no chemist to know which ones so i just binned the hose when i was finished.but yeah its probably overkill to care about such a small overage. i think it leaks out the bearing seals if you overfill it, not like it explodes or anything.
>>2958994>how would you go about draining only a slight bit of it?I wouldn't. you should see how much the dealer service over fills it, by almost a quart. the I would pump out as much as I could to get it close to a quart. but that is nothing to worry about.
unscrew picrel, put the tube in the oil and spray into someting
>>2958994to remove the oil i would just accept the mess and loosen the drain bolt and let some out real quick. my subaru burns oil and i routinely overfill it Ive put in like 50% more once cause i was like fuck it and it was fine.
>>295926750% more according to the stick not actual volume lol like if it was half on the stick id put a whole bottle in
A car I bought like a year ago (with Ecoboost engine) came with too much oil. So far no issues
>>2958994like others said, if u "overfilled" to that red line u drew, that's only slightly overfilled, just leave it, not worth the mess & hassle just to remove 1/20th of a quart & next time be more careful.
>>2958994there's a youtube video of some Russian guy who overfills an engine crankcase by 3x before it starts to cause trouble by coming out the breathing holesyour overfillage is nothing
>>2958994>how would you go about draining only a slight bit of it? Use my top side extractor to pull it out the dipstick tube.
>>2959319Op: give it the succc
>>2958994the excess will burn offtoo high a level of oil in the pan splashes extra oil on the cylinder walls, which overcomes the designed oil flow capability of the rings, which means extra oil is left behind on the cylinder walls as the piston moves downwards. This extra oil is then exposed to the combustion of the fuel charge, and it becomes smoke and goes out the tailpipe. The extra carbon residue may darken your oil a little prematurely, but it's not worth changing your oil change schedule over.
>>2958994thats nothing. dipsticks vary in length more than thati bought a b5.5 passat a bunch of years back to commute in and the 1st oil change it took 2 pans to drain. so i check the book and it says 5.3qt or something and i put it in and its not even on the stick. wtf? so i think for a minute and then look at a yootoob and the finger pull on the vid stick is completely different. somebody had put a wrong dipstick in it at an unknown previous point. i ordered a new oem one and it was like 2.5" longer than what was in it. that engine had been chugging along just fine with like 3 extra qts of oil. and the milage went up about 4mpg from the reduced windage
>>2959020This. That’s nothing. Start the engine and check it after shutting the car off and you’ll be at “full” with some oil spread around.Or go hot rod it and try to brapp off some oil
>>2958994Beimg barely over the full line is of no comcern.
>>2959311What actually happens when you overfill your motor oil? (w/ transparent oil pan)YouTube channel: Garage 54 (russian)https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VaTbfvzNbxQ&t=789s&pp=2AGVBpACAQ%3D%3D
