how much oil??

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still laughing to myself about this...
yesterday my wifes friend called out the AA, nothing strange about that...but the guy ended up having to empty out 4 Liters of excess oil from the engine :D
at this point i have no idea how the extra oil came to be there (although i have a good idea that it was filled to the brim of the oil cap :D )
But right now i'm wondering if there is actually that much spare "space" in the engine...? anyone know? obivously it changes depending on engine size
 

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Wow thats alot of excess oil, good question.

I guess once past the max level then the oil will fill the bottom of the block where the crack/conrods are and then would travel up to the cylinder head where it would then flow into the engine via the valves.

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Lol :D
I no a bloke that was filling the oil up after a service he left the electric oil pump on and forgot about it the engine was filled to the brim and all over the workshop floor if i remember correctly it was about 65 litre of 5w/30 fully sinfetic everwhere lol
It was in a 4.2 supercharged rangerover sport and the customer was waiting to pick there car up
 
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