Anyone know how much additional oil one can run before the crank hits the oil or other complications occur?

.5 qt? Full qt?

TIA,
-Ry

 

How much can you underfill it

 

My parents' Camry was taken in for an oil change a few years ago and never removed the old oil. It carried the double load well although there were occasional smoke belches and I gotta believe the crank was whipping in air very well.

I drained out quite a bit of it so they could go home without doing more damage...

 

I don't ask because I have overfilled it. But I plan to.

 

Please explain your reasoning. Are you afraid you may be getting oil starvation while taking hard corners?

 

After loosing my engine on the Dragon this fall I decided to over fill by a half quart before I just went to run it and revisit the "scene of the crime".

I've been checking everything very regularly and I have not seen any negative effect at all of adding the extra half quart. Plus I didnt blow my engine again so hey, that gets a big thumbs up in my book

And my reasoning was to prevent oil starvation. The only explaination I could find for my engine dying was oil starvation in cylinder 2. I cant think of a more likely place for this to happen than on the dragon so I decided to overfill and see how it worked out.

 

I think you'd have a hard time, if not impossible one starving the oil pump on street tires.

 

hmmmm....I ran the dragon pretty hard, oil full...

Customer of mine overfilled his Taurus by 2 qts....blown rear main seal, blown oil pan gasket, blown front crank seal was the result a few days later

Who here dumps the whole six quarts in the motor at oil change?

 

I do. Is there a problem with this? It has always been 6 qts.

 

I've run mine at 6qts without an issue.