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Old 10-15-2002, 09:30 PM
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I suspect overfilling allowed the crank to foam the oil -- once the foaming started, it blew out the dipstick tube until the level was low enough for it to stop.

There is a slight possibility that you have enough blowby at full throttle to pop the dipstick up, but even then you won't get THAT much oil blown out -- the 220 D barely manages 100 miles to the quart, and although I have blowby out the dipstick, and it occasionally causes it to pop up a bit, it only coats the engine with oil residue.

Peter
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