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Results when the oil level is over filled?

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96gstdsm

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Aug 7, 2006
monroe, New York
OK well I had asked this in my other thread pertaining to my 6 bolt swap and lots of blue smoke etc.
I got my oil changed today after about 100 miles on my break in for my new block and turbo. When I got home I noticed my exhaust was smoking alot. Blue smoke. I then popped the hood and I could see oil bubbling out between the exhaust manifold and the head. I wiped it down and checked again and it was definitely coming from there. Could see it oozing out from every bolt hole. Mostly the far most left and right sides of the exhaust manifold though. I jacked the car up and when running you could see oil just dripping off the car and to the ground. Now I didn't get so far as to really check to see if there were other leaks underneath the car, but looked as if there might be.
I later checked the oil level and it seemed to be very high. I replaced my dip stick some time back since it broke, and bought an oem replacement one. So I am assuming it measures the same.
On the receipt from the oil change it showed that they put in 4.7 quarts which is normal for an oil and filter change.
I checked the oil level and it is way over the second notch. It is about the same amount over the second notch as the second notch is from the first notch.

Could this be effecting my car negatively? Could this cause oil to get there and work it's way out the exhaust manifold? Would this cause the car to blow smoke out the exhaust pipe?
 
Update again:

OK well the head was taken off and the head gasket is in perfect condition! The block also looks to be in perfect condition, so doesn't seem like the block is cracked or anything. No visible cracks in the head either. The guy said I should just buy a rebuilt head since mine has 150K+ miles on it. Could it have cracked from the raised compression of a freshly rebuilt block? If there was a hairline crack previously, and then having the compression back up to around 180 (didn't test it before swap) cause it to crack after a little driving?
I am really stumped!! And so is the guy who is working on it. He believes it is the head being cracked, which makes the most sense when thinking of it using common sense how the coolant is there and the head gasket is fine, but seems strange for it to just crack all of a sudden when it was perfectly fine to my knowledge before the install. I drove my car there with the old engine and everything seemed fine, other than the check engine light had come on recently, and also there was a strange brake like smell once in a while.

Anything else good to check before I just buy a head and hope that resolves the issue? Don't really know if there is anything else that can be checked. The guy also said the coolant through the throttle body or whatever is by passed. Could that somehow cause this to happen, and not instantly but like 150 miles later? Can't think of anything else other than it probably is just a bad head which would be a crazy coincidence!
 
Sorry to repost but does anyone have any clues what it could be? Or the most likely scenario? I would really like to hear a little more feedback before I just go ahead and buy a rebuilt head and hope it solves the problem.
 
There should be places around were you can take the head to get checked out.
When I got my head rebuilt to oem spec on my gst it only costed me like 360 to replace everything in the head and do 3rd revision lifter and to have everything inspected and cleaned up and etc.
And make sure you use a new headgasket if when you go to put the head back on if your using a mitsubishi gasket.
Also Kenamond mentioned something about the fiav in your tb loosing its coolant into the intake manifold which would be uncommon but not impossible. Check that.
FIY i completely blocked off my coolant to throttle body lines, but you got to do something with the wax inside of it and make sure its sealed from the inside out.( Its been a while cant remember ) I dont know if that will screw with your idle, mines wasnt affected to much.

Im guessing everyone else is as stumped as you are judging by the replys.
 
There should be places around were you can take the head to get checked out.
When I got my head rebuilt to oem spec on my gst it only costed me like 360 to replace everything in the head and do 3rd revision lifter and to have everything inspected and cleaned up and etc.
And make sure you use a new headgasket if when you go to put the head back on if your using a mitsubishi gasket.
Also Kenamond mentioned something about the fiav in your tb loosing its coolant into the intake manifold which would be uncommon but not impossible. Check that.
FIY i completely blocked off my coolant to throttle body lines, but you got to do something with the wax inside of it and make sure its sealed from the inside out.( Its been a while cant remember ) I don't know if that will screw with your idle, mines wasn't affected to much.

I'm guessing everyone else is as stumped as you are judging by the replys.

I'm using a mitsubishi mls headgasket. The guy said it was in perfect condition. Like I said before I only drove this car with this setup for under 150 miles. Should I still not reuse it? I will talk to him about the whole throttle body thing to see if that could somehow be responsible. Seems unlikely and I don't believe there was really any traces or much of coolant on the intake runners of the head, just mostly the exhaust from what I understand.
 
I'm using a mitsubishi mls headgasket. The guy said it was in perfect condition. Like I said before I only drove this car with this setup for under 150 miles. Should I still not reuse it? I will talk to him about the whole throttle body thing to see if that could somehow be responsible. Seems unlikely and I don't believe there was really any traces or much of coolant on the intake runners of the head, just mostly the exhaust from what I understand.

maybe you have a nasty crack in the block or head... Most likely/ Hopefully not though because that would really suck. And im not sure if its the metal kind you might be ok, but I know some headgaskets arent suppose to be reused. ( The stock kind for example )
 
Hey does anyone know how rare it is for the head to crack during a block swap? I don't know if that is what happened to my car, but from the previous posts in here you can see the problems with coolant leaking from the head and the head gasket is fine.
Seems really hard for the head to crack correct? Could it not being torqued correctly cause it to crack? If it was cracked would it definitely start leaking out the head right away? This all happened like 100 miles after everything was done.
Getting frustrating trying to find out whats going on. Have the head just sent somewhere to check it out, but they are taking for ever to check it out for me. Just looking to see what the likelyhood of it cracking somewhere during the process of putting new rebuilt 6 bolt block in with the stock 2g head. And also not smoking for 100 miles. Started smoking right up after oil change.
 
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