Do you have to be completely dry out of oil to cease ur engine?

 

nope. I am pretty sure that as soon as you don't have enough to splash around on the underside of the piston on the cylinder walls, you are in trouble.

/Jon

 

if it still reads on the stick is that enough?

 

Other things besides no/low oil can lead to a seized motor. Break a ring, wrist pin, crank problems. I know a guy who dropped a sir clip into the crank case when he rebuilt his blaster. It got splashed up onto the crank. Seized motor.

 

On another thread a guy said he drove a foreman or rubicon 7.5 miles with no oil, engine overheated, took it to the shop, they added oil and it's ran fine ever s ince.