After putting in rebuilt injectors, installing a new starter and battery, I went to take it for a test drive, got about 500 feet and clunk clunk fssssss. It ran really rough before it died. Tried starting it again and huge billows of white smoke came out the tail pipe.

I checked the oil and something (not oil) was WAY up the dipstick. So the crankcase was completely full of . . . what?



My guess is that after pulling the injectors, since the lines were over the top of the holes that they dribbled fuel into the cylinders, which then leaked past the rings into the crankcase. But to overfill the crankcase, that would have to be a LOT of fuel. Is it possible that the full gas tank when warm had positive pressure and pushed fuel through the IP and out the lines?



As the oil filler cap say, don't overfill the crankcase! So, being overfull, it did what exactly? Seems like it blew a head gasket and did some other damage.

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1986 300 SDL, gray on black, #14 head, 180K miles
1982 300 CD, silver on palomino, 290K+ miles [sold]
1980 300 SD, white on palomino, 500K+ miles when retired [uncle's car - inspiration for the above]