> If you overfill with oil and it's dripping from air filter and blowing white smoke, what do you do?

If you overfill with oil and it's dripping from air filter and blowing white smoke, what do you do?

Posted at: 2015-01-07 
If your crankcase has too much oil, you must remove the excess. An easy but slow way is to put a piece of plastic hose (from Lowe's) on the end of a turkey baster (from Target), suck oil from the dipstick tube and dump it into a suitable container -- empty 5 quart oil bottle, etc. Once you have the oil level at or slightly below the full line on dipstick, wipe oil from air cleaner housing and etc. with clean paper towel, then install new air filter and go for a drive to remove excess. Never operate an engine which is overfilled with oil.

Well, lets see here. White smoke. You think the oil pan is overfilled.

I suspect coolant in the pan. Open the radiator cap when cooled. Look a little milky in there?

Pull the drain plug and get rid of the excess oil before ruining the engine! The crankshaft counter-weights will beat the oil to an air-filled milkshake. When the oil pump forces air and oil to the frictional surfaces they will overheat and fail.

If you overfill then drain some out. If the white smoke is from the tailpipe, then it's not from overfilling with oil.

drain some