Random Thoughts - Part III The Search for Spark (No Politics)

[spike021]

Originally Posted by Spuds

What's the other side of the dipstick look like? Always use the lower reading side, that faces upwards in the oil pan I think.

Wanted to double-check, so I went out just now; car is still warm from earlier:

Tried to get two angles and zooms, a little blurry because it's dark and my hands are shaky. Also this is after taking it out, wiping it, dipping, removing, wiping, dipping, removing and checking.

First side:

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by spike021

Wanted to double-check, so I went out just now; car is still warm from earlier:

Tried to get two angles and zooms, a little blurry because it's dark and my hands are shaky. Also this is after taking it out, wiping it, dipping, removing, wiping, dipping, removing and checking.

You can easily overfill by half a quart and be fine. I am not sure what the threshold is before you start causing issues, but it is more then a half a quart. I know a few guys whose standard practice is to over fill. The crank is pretty high above the oil pan and the upper oil pan assembly is pretty large, there is also a windage shield so it’s not like it could froth a whole lot of it. At worst it will push out some through the PCV system.

[Spuds]

Yeah looks a bit overfilled, probably by about a quart. If you had a valve you could let some out. You could try pumping some out through the dipstick tube if you are concerned.

[spike021]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

You can easily overfill by half a quart and be fine. I am not sure what the threshold is before you start causing issues, but it is more then a half a quart. I know a few guys whose standard practice is to over fill. The crank is pretty high above the oil pan and the upper oil pan assembly is pretty large, there is also a windage shield so it’s not like it could froth a whole lot of it. At worst it will push out some through the PCV system.

The thing is, I've been dealing with this ticking thing and it's only started sometime in the past two weeks (so after the maintenance was done).

https://youtube.com/shorts/piesQeL8P...NJJ2hOdGxQ_Pcd

Sorry not sure why the YouTube app insists on uploading as a short.

You may need headphones. But that ticking has started sometime since this maintenance.

Obviously causation != correlation but now that I'm dealing with that, it makes me concerned knowing the oil is overfilled like that.

[spike021]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Yeah looks a bit overfilled, probably by about a quart. If you had a valve you could let some out. You could try pumping some out through the dipstick tube if you are concerned.

A neighbor of mine has older BMWs and works on them. Fortunately he has one of those dipstick tube pumps, so he's going to help me out tomorrow with that.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

Start the new job on the 25th. Had a conversation with the company president, who I actually respect, last night. It was a good talk and he had already assumed more money and different position wasn’t going to change my mind. Told the idiot GM this morning, He was shocked, don’t know how as I have been telling him since June of last year of things didn’t change I would be on my way out.

Congrats! This is huge!

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by spike021

The thing is, I've been dealing with this ticking thing and it's only started sometime in the past two weeks (so after the maintenance was done).

https://youtube.com/shorts/piesQeL8P...NJJ2hOdGxQ_Pcd

Sorry not sure why the YouTube app insists on uploading as a short.

You may need headphones. But that ticking has started sometime since this maintenance.

Obviously causation != correlation but now that I'm dealing with that, it makes me concerned knowing the oil is overfilled like that.

Sounds like an idler pulley or the idler tensioner. When mine started to go it was a sporadic noise that eventually developed into steady noise. Still hard to tell, just a guess.

[bcj]

Happy Chocolate Day!

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[Spuds]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

I usually check Rockauto too.

I made the mistake of checking rockauto AFTER I already ordered parts. They really have the best price on "normal" non-oem repair parts like rotors.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Spuds

I made the mistake of checking rockauto AFTER I already ordered parts. They really have the best price on "normal" non-oem repair parts like rotors.

Big picture... Pinching pennies on a first-world hobby. Install and enjoy!

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Big picture... Pinching pennies on a first-world hobby. Install and enjoy!

They don't repair or otherwise maintain cars in the former Soviet Union and/or non-aligned countries?

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Spuds

They don't repair or otherwise maintain cars in the former Soviet Union and/or non-aligned countries?

You're autocrossing a sports car. In former Soviet Union, car maintains you.

[spike021]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

Sounds like an idler pulley or the idler tensioner. When mine started to go it was a sporadic noise that eventually developed into steady noise. Still hard to tell, just a guess.

Interesting. Definitely will keep that in mind.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

You're autocrossing a sports car. In former Soviet Union, car maintains you.

I've watched the videos, more like in the Soviet Union, car is out to end you.