Thank you for the reassurance. At first I was nervous bc my temp gauge kept going up into the red. Appears it's 2 things, I didn't tighten the oil filter enough which caused alot of oil to drain out when I was driving. And there is moisture on the spark plugs on the left hand side only so I'll have to identify the source of the leak.
This is scary to read.
First oil will not cause overheating. The engine will spin bearings and lock up way before it overheats the water in it.
Not sure how you could get a n oil filter not tight enough. Tight at you can get it by hand it fine. Most spec at 3/4-1 turn after the gasket touches but just tighten by hand is fine.
Only seen two loose ones in my life.
Sometimes the old gasket sticks to the engine and if you don't remove it and end up with two gaskets it will leak like mad.
Low oil and ANY lack of oil pressure is NO JOKE! Anytime the low oil pressure warning comes on you INSTANTLY turn off the ignition. Even 5 seconds with low pressure can cause damage.
This damage is BIG money damage.
Overheating is 2nd big money thing.
If it was low on coolant and you have damp plugs (do you mean the inside cylinder part or wet in the plug wells on outside as you removed them) then you could have a leak or at worst a head gasket leak.
A head gasket leak will cause overheating and wet plug electrodes.
You will also get some steam out of exhaust and the liquid will not be stale water but have smelly sticky coolant mixed in.
NEVER drive or run one in the red. ALWAYS turn it off before the gauge hits the red or you are in risky territory.
People blow up engines all the time because they want to get where they are going and don't realize the serious ans immediate nature of loss of oil pressure or overheating.
