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Old 06-03-2011, 06:41 AM
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Originally Posted by DAVID GAGNARD View Post
Yes..........


probably.........
if you were to just keep adding oil to a small block ford engine, I'm guessing you could overfill it by 10 quarts, when you figure the total capacity of the pan and the capacity of the crankcase........maybe more, would it run? that's another question. I'm sure it would start and run for a while, blow by would probably be terrible....

David
Its not the blow by your worried about. Once the oil level gets high enough the crank starts running through the oil. When that happens you will loose oil pressure rather quickly because of all the air in the oil.
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