msalvoni
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I am so confused and Embarrassed about what happened today. I Decided to change my oil today. I purchased castrol edge extended performance full synthetic 5w-20, and I purchased a fram XG10575 oil filter. I have not had any warning lights come on, just the change oil soon light. I drained the old oil and it turned out to be about 6 quarts (at the time I hadn't measured how much came out so I didnt realize it was low untill investigating later). I realize this may have been one HORRIBLE mistake that I made but I only had the front of the car jacked up so obviously the car was not level. But it seemed like it would make sense as it was leaning in the direction where the most oil would come out of the oil pan. I proceeded to put on the oil filter and then tighten back up the drain plug no issues. I filled the engine with 8 quarts and finshed up the job thinking everything was great. I checked the dip stick and saw that oil was up to the maximum and as stupid as it may have been didnt really look or take into consideration if or how far above the full marker it was. I just assumed 8 quarts in has to be good. Anyways I started driving the car and after about 3 miles I noticed smoke in the rear. (heart dropped, and honestly this is hard for me to even talk about) i had to drive it about 3 more miles to get home so a total of 7-8 miles is how far I drove the car. When I got home it all hit me as I stepped out of my car, oil was spewing from underneath the car and was all over the underside of my car and on my license plate and tai lights. I have not started the car since and I will be investigating everything tomorrow so feel free to say a prayer... I am praying something just went bad with the oil filter... no check engine lights came on or oil lights and i saw it had oil pressure the whole time untill it was turned off. Tomorrow I will see how much was left in the car ( I must have lost several quarts). When I got back to my place where I work on the car I noticed it was leaking starting right where I turned the car on to warm up and check oil via dip stick. I never thought to look back down there after the change... neighbors kids were running circles around me distracting me the whole time but still no excuse for not peeking down there. Anyways I am just hoping I didn't damage the engine and it has something to do with the oil filter (thats where I believe it was spewing from). I saw somhere that you need to make sure the gasket is not left on there from the previous oil filter but I checked the old one and it was still on there so i dont think thats it. I defintely tightetened the oil filter enough so... A thought just popped into my head I mean I may have used the wrong tool to tighten it and punctured the filter... I use a metal pipe wrench with a chain maybe i punctured it without noticing ( but I tried not to overtighten...) I will know more tomorrow.
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