on my oil change today, despite the helms saying i should be putting in 4.5 quarts, i put in exactly 5 quart bottles of mobil 1 and changed my oil filter (jdm oil filter, not the big version) and it came to be at exactly the top dot. does anyone have a explanation? i thought that it would even be less then 4.5 since the filters got smaller.
Might've been on a slope, or you didn't run the engine and let all the oil drain to the pan or whatever. The engine takes 4.5. You have too much oil in your engine.
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eh i just put 5 quarts so i don't have half a jug sitting there........been doing that for awhile no problems.......i mean unless he's putting a couple of quarts over.......its not that bad......don't ppl put more oil in when roadracing anyways?
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midnite, I nearly empty my 5th bottle, usually have an eighth left, give or take a little, that is on level ground, after I've run the engine for a minute and finished topping off.
After i do the initial start up after i go 4 quarts, it always needs the last 5th one for me to top it off. It seems like a lot of ppl don't check after they start the car up, for me, after i start the car and it circulates, i'm always a quart down. This is for a 95 H23A motor.
Last edited by 808PreludeSi; 11-04-2004 at 03:28 AM.
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After i do the initial start up after i go 4 quarts, it always needs the last 5th one for me to top it off. It seems like a lot of ppl don't check after they start the car up, for me, after i start the car and it circulates, i'm always a quart down. This is for a 95 H23A motor.
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Originally Posted by 4thGenReady2Go
midnite, I nearly empty my 5th bottle, usually have an eighth left, give or take a little, that is on level ground, after I've run the engine for a minute and finished topping off.
I think everyone does, they just don't say it. It's the commonly accepted way to change oil, not to mention per Honda's instruction.
today, i checked and now im over. thats pretty strange since after i got back from the oil change and the car sat for about 20 minutes, i checked the oil and it was exactly in the middle of the top dot. but today, when i got to school, i checked it a few minutes after i turned off the engine and its about 2-3 cms over the top dot and i checked it again after i got out of school an hour and a half later. thats pretty wierd... i guess ill have to drain about 1/4-1/8 quart out. i wonder what i did wrong. hopefully nothing happen to my engine while i was running it with that much extra oil. what kinda consequence is it to have extra engine oil? does it wear down the car more and more as you have extra oil, or just one day, it will get to be too much and a seal will go bad or something similar that happens on a single day instead of a progressive wear and tear thing?
Last edited by MidNiteMysT; 11-04-2004 at 12:15 PM.
There's not that much difference between the h22 and h23. They both use the same block casting. I just did a oil change for my friend's 94 si. I changed the oil filter using a oem honda one, and i topped it off at 5quarts.
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