Why not just determine how much oil that engine is supposed to hold
at full (5 quarts?), fill it and mark the dip stick? Be sure that you hold
the shop that did the oil change responsible/liable for what they done
IF the trouble turns out to be related to the overfilling. They should
not have taken your business if they didn't know what they were doing
so they have no excuse for their liable behavior.

bob

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Peter K <bybike@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've read the threads about too much oil with great interest as I took my
> westy in for its first oil change here in Toronto. She has a 1.9 turbo
> diesel from a 94 jetta, and the dipstick isn't "normal" in that a proper
> level of oil is below the low mark. The shop put over 6 liters of oil in
> her, topping it up to the full mark, and when I drove her it wasn't long
> before she blew oil out, then promptly sucked it back in thru the turbo and
> ran wild for a full minute (even with the ignition shut off). Max revs,
> first a blue cloud and then a black one, and then she finally stopped.
>
> Now she's very hard to start, appears to be pumping oil into the cylinders
> and when she does fire up it's with a big blue cloud. Once the engine is
> warm, it runs fine and will start fine. However she is on a steady diet of
> oil (at least 1 liter every few hundred miles). She's in the shop now,
> thought I'd ask here what people suspect might have blown... Mike said he
> will start with a compression test.
>
> I suspect the glow plugs are fouled, and some piston ring damage.
>
> As a side question, anyone know where i can get a longer dipstick? Or
> confirm what the correct one is so I can avoid this in the future?
>
> sigh
>
> --
> Regards, Peter Kraiker
> studiofstop.com
> '82 Westfalia 1.9TD
>