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| | | | Joined: Nov 2014 Posts: 623 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Nov 2014 Posts: 623 | I just checked my oil and it got me to thinking, I'm not even sure exactly where the correct level is on this stick. I guess I've gotten too use to newer dipsticks that have hash marks at the low, high, and sometimes even quarter full. Anyway, I checked it at the gas station just to make sure all was okie-dokie, and the oil level was about half way (or so, but not less) between the bottom of the dipstick and the lowest part of the FULL engraving on the stick. I live on, and have to park on, a hill with a 5 degree slope, so getting an accurate reading there is impossible. As a matter of fact, I went out just now to check it and maybe get a picture to post, and the oil now almost completely covers the FULL mark. Last time I changed the oil I meant to make a note down at the gas station, but I forgot to remember that, as usual. So, where is the 'usual' correct spot for full, but not over full, on my engine. I don't want to add oil if it doesn't need it, but on the other hand...
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| | | | | Joined: Aug 2012 Posts: 1,214 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2012 Posts: 1,214 | Does it have a bypass oil filter? If so it can take 5 to 15 minutes for the canister to drain back into the oil pan after shut down.
I try to keep the oil level in my 216 up at the top line. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2016 Posts: 20 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Sep 2016 Posts: 20 | On your next oil change you can fill it to 1 quart below full (including what you need for your filter system)and run the engine for a few minutes to get the oil into the filter. Let it sit long enough to drain back into the pan and check the level. You can mark that spot on the dipstick as the add 1 qt level and then top it off. Then you don't need to guess or remember. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | we do have a expert dipstick member but he has not chimed it yet..
Glad you figured it out..
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,876 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,876 | Is that anything like the Dukes of Hazzard- - - - -"DIPSTICK!"
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