Re: Ugh Type 4 problems

There's a reasonably good chance that it was overfilled. On mine, the difference between my parking spot at work which appears level and my parking spot at home, which appears level, is two quarts! It was always very frustrating for me to find that it was a quart low and then find that it's 2 quarts overfull after I add a quart! After saying all that, though, when I had my previous engine with the bad oil pickup, I ran it two quarts over all the time and didn't have any oil blowing out.

It actually sounds like it may have been headin' for the last roundup and you just happened to be the one who drove it that day! Usually oil gets blown out of the dipstick tube when there's badly worn rings or worse. There is a little rubber connector bellows behind the fan housing that connects the outer dipstick tube with thw inner dipstick tube and those deteriorate in time and if the oil level was very high and that bellows is shot, you'd get a whole buncha oil out there just as you described. Leaving the filler cap off would possibly pump some oil but not as likely. The fan throws the oil everywhere, so it's tough to detect the source, but if the engine is in good shape (you didn't say it made any bad noises - just bad smoke) the main culprits are (in order of liklihood): (1) dipstick tube connector (2) oil pressure sending unit (3) valve cover gasket(s) (4) pushrod tube seals (5) loose or stripped oil cooler attachment (6) loose oil pump cover (7) loose case studs If the engine was getting on in miles, then there is a whole new set of parameters: Blow-by suddenly made worse by a broken piston blowing oil out any available opening!

I'm thinking it was an over-fill oversight and maybe a hill thrown in for good measure and a trashed dipstick tube connector... these CAN be installed without taking everything apart, but it may require a female-sized hand to reach up there and slide it on! Then use nylon tie straps instead of metal clamps. Think positive! Good luck.

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You didn't say if it was making noise like something in the engine blew like a rod etc. If no noise you may have just blown an oil cooler or your pressure relief valve is stuck. It happened to me the valve has a spring that cuts into the case and sticks then pressure goes nuts and oil comes out of everwhere. No noise is may not be a big deal. I cross my fingers for you. Does the car run? Joe Cali - Next Generation- usa

oh, and good luck!

Well I didn't want to bring in the fact the overfilling of oil may be a coincidence and the engine throw a rod through the case and there is a big hole the oil is coming from, but I was trying to be positive and I hope I am wrong.