This afternoon as I was leaving my house in my newly acquired 1987 740gle, to have it undergo the state smog/safety inspection, I realized that there was a gigantic cloud of smoke behind me and it would not go away. Much to my chagrin I realized it was coming from my new Volvo. How could this be it didn't smoke when I test drove it before purchase, it didn't smoke on the way home and so on.
So I have to assume that the cause is the last thing I did to the car - an oil change. Last night I dragged out my oil extractor hook it up to the Volvo's oil dipstick tube and pumped away except not much came out. "Good thing I am changing the oil because the PO let it get low" I thought. I put in 4qts of Castrol synthetic oil, checked the dipstick - looked full and call it a night.
Could I have stupidly drowned the engine in oil? Is there a baffle on the oil pan that prevents the oil extractor's pick up tube from reaching the oil?
Why is the dipstick so hard to read? What have I done????
Thanks for your help
Jorge
1987 740gle 151k