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Re: Weird dipstick reading! Posted by Landjet [Email] (#16) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Landjet) on Tue, 3 Sep 2019 19:34:15 In Reply to: Weird dipstick reading!, BS, Tue, 3 Sep 2019 14:01:52 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
I can think of a couple ideas of what it could be. Was the transmission replaced with an earlier or later model -- I've combined old gearboxes with newer engines and you have to get the dipstick tube and correct dipstick for that era trans.
Secondly, in the right weather conditions, particularly when it is cool at night....if it is hot during the day, and you shut off the car, then it gets cool during the evening. In the morning, the oil level appears to be higher as the vacuum in the upper part of the engine will pull the oil, siphoning it up into the dipstick tube. Once you pull the dipstick, it registers high. The vacuum is broken, the oil retreats into the sump, and the second level check is normal.
Thirdly, your dipstick tube is too short from being broken off or it's just not the right mark to read level on the dipstick.
Fourth, was the car originally equipped with an oil cooler and now it is not?
OK, so now I'm out of ideas, but the good news is that you have lots of oil. My daughter brought home her Kia over the weekend and you could barely see oil on the tip of the dipstick. It took 2.5 quarts of oil to get it to the midway point on the dipstick. Another couple hundred miles, it would have been a crispy critter.
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