5 quarts of oil over-full for 1900 miles, no damage, and at one point had no oil pressure

DirkAwsome
Fri, 26 Jun 2015 02:50:23 +0000
Maintenance/Repairs

Ok, I had a weird problem happen. I was driving to wisconsin, and my oil pressure dropped off. So I check the dipstick, bone dry. I put in 5 quarts and continue on. I go to service my front diff recently, and I notice oil all over the filter n frame n whatnot. So when I bring it back to the oil place, they tighten it, and I watch them, it wasn’t loose at all, then they check the dipstick, I was 5 quarts overfilled, for 1900 odd miles. I have no lifter noise, I have no knocking, or even any coolant leaks. The coolant is green as the day i put it in. How the heck do I not have any problems or weird noises or anything, most importantly, what the hell happened to the oil. It came back it seems. No one changed my oil in between then and I didn’t do anything but put gas in it.

96
Ram
1500
318 magnum, not the original LA series.
4x4

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