My uncle changed my oil and put atleast half a quart too much in my car will it damage it/how do i fix it?

Question:
my car is a 96 ford escort and ive put about 1000 miles on it since he changed my oil my freind noticed it was to high when we were messing around with it and sayed it will mess up somekind of seal. Is this true and if so can i just drain a little oil to fix it?

Answers:

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they say it can blow your rear main seal. but really ive done the same thing and drove it. still going strong. you can either open up your drain and let some oil out, make sure you have another quart with you chances are u will let to much out. or you can remove your filter and empty it a 6 or 8 cylinder engine holds about a 1/4 of a quart.

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It's fine... don't sweat it.. If it's only half a quart over then you have nothing to worry about.

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If it were any more than that I would worry..

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pull the oil plug and drain a quart of oil from the engine.
too much oil will cause too much pressure in the engine,resulting in damaged gaskets and oil leaks.

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if its a small oil filter, take it off, empty it , then put it back on

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Overfilling the oil is a VERY bad idea! Drain or draw out the excess.

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A half a quart will not make a big difference at all. I wouldn't worry about it.

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Too much oil can cause a few different seals to go out. It can also flood your spark plugs.

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Drain your oil, and replace it with the correct amount.

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Your fine.. dont worry

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In all actuality a quart too much oil is worst than a quart too low. Too much oil will damage your engine. I would drain half a quart out until its at the full mark. I worked at a place changing oil and thats what they told us. I cannot remember now what exactly it ruins internally.

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if it isnt to much it should hurt anything. if it seem slike it is way to much you could drain some of it. just pull out the oil pan drain bolt slightly and let a little of it drain. beware that if you pull it out to far itll just pour out quick like. so just barely. drain it. check it. and keep doing so. if you drain to much just put some back in until the correct amount is reached.

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Drain a little out of you feel the need.
Less than a quart shouldn't hurt it.
If I was that worried about it I would simply go have the oil changed.
I'd be more concerned that the engine is "making" oil, as in the crankcase is being contaminated with gas or antifreeze.
Have a real mechanic take a look at it and have the oil changed.

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Yes, drain out that extra amount. Too much oil can cause damage. The oil pump creates pressure and the bearing seals of the engine could rupture. This will cause an oil leak that will need to be replaced. It might not happen first time, but will decrease the life of the seal that otherwise might have lasted a long time.

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It is easy to drain oil out, just turn the bolt on the oil pan under the car. No big deal.

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To much oil can blow your valve cover gaskets which is bad but pretty cheap to fix. It can also blow out your rear seal that connects your crank shaft to the transmission, this is very expensive and difficult to fix. You should empty out the excess oil asap.

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The can unscrew the oil change bolt and drain out part of it. If you want to make sure there is no damage you can run a bottle of motor flush through the system and rechange the oil a 1/2 quart shouldn't do much if any damage but if your not sure how much over I would suggest flushing and refilling so it doesn't foul out your spark plugs or injectors

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Best to remove the excess oil. I would use a Pela Pump to extract it via the Dipstick hole.

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It is a very distinctive rule of thumb to follow the manufacturer's recommendation fluid level for any of your cars fluids. It is a very good observation on your friends part that it has been over filled with oil and that it is a possibility that some of it should be drained out. If when draining some out you think too much was drained, be sure and run the engine, shut it off, wait for about five minutes, recheck the level, refill to the full mark located on the dip-stick.As far as it possibly as you say mess up a seal, all engines have what they call a crankcase seal located in the front and rear of them. These seals are designed to sustain a considerable amount of backpressure in order for them to operate in a correct manner, they do require a set amount of free clearance for the inner motor components to move and lubricate all other friction bearing parts in them. If they are cramped so to speak in the normal operation of the motor,with having too much oil in them the first thing that will happen is they will create more backpressure than normal, in turn taking out the weaker, thus being the front and or rear crankcase seals, creating a big mess along with further engine problems as alot more oil will leak, eventually resulting in engine failure.