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This isn’t a scientific answer or even an anecdotal one, but I’d think if it was wrapped tight enough that it won’t rattle it might be too tight to breathe effectively.
I am an ABSOLUTE weapon. Somehow I forgot that the switch was a ‘pull’ for spray, I was pushing it down. Now I’m wondering why the sprayers aren’t aimed at my windshield at all. oh well.
Will do! I was actually really worried about the oil on the plugs because I pulled them twice before my buddy hooned the car and I changed the oil and while they were clearly used there wasn’t any significant fouling.
When I got the car back after buddy “tried to break it”, the engine was misfiring and it didn’t want to start, so I pulled the plugs to clean them and saw a big ‘drop’ of oil covering the electrodes on one, and another glob of fried oil joining the two electrodes in another cylinder.
I thought this might be a head gasket issue, a buddy told me it was probably the piston rings and to use a synthetic oil, which I already had. But if it was the rings wouldn’t the pistons be wet with oil? I checked all 4, they all looked a little dirty but dry, and the spark plugs appeared to have been ‘dripped off’ like oil had ran down them and dripped off. Would this be the valve cover and spark gaskets? I replaced those and haven’t had any misfires since but I haven’t pulled the sparks since the gasket was installed. There has never been any oil in the spark plug wells.
I’ll fill up the oil with some 5w30 and see if the level dropped after a week or so, and if it did I’ll try to figure out a cheap and dirty way to do a compression test. I’ve seen people do it with assorted compressor hose, fittings and gauges. I have never heard of a leak down test though, so I’m looking forward to watching some videos on how to do that.
I was thinking the 5w20 might be responsible, but since this car was abused and there are quite possibly oil passages partially clogged, and it’s -40 here, that a 5w20 would get into the engine quicker.
I’ll top it up with the 5w30 and consider doing a full swap. At this point I’m putting $10 of gas at a time because I really don’t know if it will blow up or not, although I’m probably more paranoid than required.
Alright, in that case I’ll probably fill it a wee bit more. I was just concerned how high the oil was sloshing. Didn’t seem right to me. Thanks for the help!
I was thinking it might be that too, but from what I’ve read it seems like the oil would have to read high to have it hitting the crank shaft. And mine reads low when cold.
Other than over pressure or being high and reaching seals that are compromised, which in my engine probably are, I thought the crankshaft hitting oil was one of the worst things that could happen from overfilling the oil.