Too much oil

[midniteblues]

There is no way a extra qt. Is gonna blow out of the front seal or cause "more leakage". There is no significant pressure at the front seal it's lubed by oil draining back down.

Like said when running a lot of the oil is in the top end in circulation. And the oil in the pan is in the baffled sump except what is draining back in.

If there was way too much 2-3 qts. It's possible the rotating assemblely will splash in it and foam it up. But I still don't see it pushing past the seal.

Did you lube the snout of the damper when you put it in? If not you could've fried the seal or tore it.

I couldn't believe I did this once but I installed the wrong front oil pan seal once but that made a complete mess almost instantly at start up.

I bought a 81 Malibu in the early 90's. From a elderly couple.
The owner said the motor was shot cause it smoked so bad. I mean REALLY bad. the smoke flume coming out the tail pipe was tremendously horrifying.

As it turned out someone filled the motor up with oil dang near half way up the dip stick tube had too be at least 12 qt.in it.
And amazingly it ran that way not good but it ran.

I don't remember seeing any external leaks except what was puking out the pcv and air breather hose.

I drained most of the oil and left it idle for a while and it started clearing up. Afterwards i Changed the plugs and oil and cleaned everything up and it ran great.