Originally Posted By: philipp10
Originally Posted By: CentAmDL650
By running the oil that low you probably added alot more varnish and carbon to the piston rings. The rings may be stuck now. I agree with jdavis, run a cleaner like MMO or Rislone or Kreen in the next oci to free up the rings and reduce future oil consumption.
He didn't "probably" do anything of the sort. As he stated, the oil that came out looked clean and flowed well. If he has a stuck ring, he will know it by increased oil consumption. And carbon on the pistons does not come from over worked oil. These are assumptions that don't need to be made as he can prove over his next change if any of this occured by seeing how the motor preforms.
Agreed, as long as it maintained oil pressure it's fine... Even if pressure did drop but not enough to trigger light there isn't a problem...
For the original poster, first you messed up by not checking oil every couple thousand miles but I doubt there is any damage... Some of these posters no doubt get their jollies spreading all sorts of gloom & doom, which brings up 2nd mistake, posting here... Way too much OCD...
My beater F-150 was bought with less than a quart of oil in the pan and it has a six quart system... Now been 2½ years on 5K OCI, still runs fine...