Hello all,

Curious if anybody here could help me with some advice. I have a 2003 civic ex has 130k miles, always ran great, new timing belt water pump head gasket, head bolts, head milled, all new seals everywhere. It was well maintained. Last night I was driving and the motor sounded a little loud. I stopped and checked oil, the dipstick seemed like it was completely covered at times, other times seemed empty. I put in some oil just to be safe and thought id be fine driving it home. It always ran synthetic n this oil was always changed on time, this oil was at 4k miles.

The car just got loud turned off stalled on side of road. I had it towed home, when I looked under this morning there was oil everywhere underneath. The drain plug was fine, and I drained oil it seemed completely full, I saw no metal shavings. Nothing came out of oil filter though, but it was tight. Did my oil pump go bad?

It currently cranks healthy but don't start n is making a tiny screeching sound. Should I replace the oil pump or do you feel something major happened due to oil underneath? When I take the pan off would I be able to see if a rod or bearing got destroyed? The car is beautiful n was so meticulously cared for, hate to get rid of it.

Whats the next step?

 

putting in to much oil can definitely damage the engine.is the check engine light on if so you need to have the fault codes checked to find out exactly whats going on.

 

Are you sure that it's not the gear oil that's leaking?