Thread: How do you “really” read the oil dipstick?
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Old 02-04-2003, 12:21 AM
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I think mid-level is right. Oil expands when it gets warm, let alone 8+ quarts.

Somewhere on this site I read where someone had continuously filled their engine with oil right up to the full mark and it always went down to about mid point on the dip stick. As I recall they at first thought it was some mysterious leak.

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