cr0sh
05/24/2015, 04:34 PM
First off, I'm pretty sure mine has it. A couple of weeks back I checked my dipstick after filling the gas tank - nothing on it. So I dropped a couple of quarts in, waited - checked "full".
Drove it to work the next day, then checked the stick before I left work for home, still "full".
A week later, after filling my tank again - checked it - and it was down below the full line by "1/3" the distance between "add" and "full".
My question is - so I can track my oil consumption - what amount of oil does that space between "add" and "full" represent - if anything? Or - should I just add oil (to the "full" mark) when I notice it below the "full" mark when cool?
One thing I plan on doing, after reading about ahdoman doing it to his Pearl (lucky guy!) was putting cross-hatching on the dipstick to see the level better. Well - when I get her back from the shop (again - she's back in to figure out why an EGR code is being thrown - even after a new EGR valve and the tube cleaned - plus I am getting my new window seals installed - though for the month I had her, my mechanic's hacked seals worked perfectly!).
Drove it to work the next day, then checked the stick before I left work for home, still "full".
A week later, after filling my tank again - checked it - and it was down below the full line by "1/3" the distance between "add" and "full".
My question is - so I can track my oil consumption - what amount of oil does that space between "add" and "full" represent - if anything? Or - should I just add oil (to the "full" mark) when I notice it below the "full" mark when cool?
One thing I plan on doing, after reading about ahdoman doing it to his Pearl (lucky guy!) was putting cross-hatching on the dipstick to see the level better. Well - when I get her back from the shop (again - she's back in to figure out why an EGR code is being thrown - even after a new EGR valve and the tube cleaned - plus I am getting my new window seals installed - though for the month I had her, my mechanic's hacked seals worked perfectly!).