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Originally Posted by vinuneuro
You can't blow oil lines from adding too much oil. Oil pumps have pressure relief/regulatory valves. The worst that can happen is the oil gets a little frothy in the pan, but that's not going to cause the kind of failure he described.
Should be interesting to hear the cause of failure on this one. I'd guess that maybe the oil cooler/line leaked (in a large way lol).
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There is DEFINITELY harm in having too much engine oil. The most common problem is -- believe it or not -- lack of lubrication caused by low oil pressure. What happens is the crankshaft "whips" the oil in the oil pan into a foam. The foamed oil is then pushed through the lubrication system. The air bubbles causes a drop in oil pressure and less oil is delivered to moving parts. This results in increased wear, lower fuel economy, higher temperatures and generally just a Whole Lot Of Bad Things.
The action of the crankshaft whipping up the oil also robs the engine of some power; it takes effort to push the crankshaft through all that extra oil.
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