Overfill during a recent oil change

I recently changed my oil and filter but I overfilled the oil by a slight margin. The oil is shown as over the high marker in the glass window. Does it matter???

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Well there's probably a reason for the high marker...

Unfortunately draining a small amount of oil is going to be a bit more of a headache than adding some.

Place a container to catch the oil under the oil pan and loosen the bolt a bit with a tool, and then use your hands. You should be able to loosen it enough to start leaking oil, yet without taking it off completely. Drain a bit and tighten, then clean up.

However, this method will result in small amounts of oil getting trapped in the bolt's thread - probably not a great thing.

Best thing would be to completely drain the oil into a clean container, clean everything up, tighten the drain bolt, re-fill with the same oil.

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Originally Posted by rideforfun

I recently changed my oil and filter but I overfilled the oil by a slight margin. The oil is shown as over the high marker in the glass window. Does it matter???



Depends on what you mean by slight...

Personally I wouldn't worry if it was no more than 1/16 or 1/8" or something like that.. but if it's half an inch then you could take some out.

Sacrifice a turkey baster and some hose if you can to suck some out through the filler.

personally if it's "slight" such as Don described IMO I wouldn't worry about it. I can actually think of cases where stunters go and add extra oil with no side effects.. it's generally safe to say it's better to have too much as opposed to too little.

Now If really bothers you, you easily drain a small amount as described.

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