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Originally Posted by Diseasel300
Did you give the oil time to drain down from the head? Sometimes fresh oil can be hard to see on the dipstick, I had such a hard time with it on my SDL that I filed the dipstick rough so I could see where it clung! Synthetic oil is much worse about it than conventional.
If you know you added 2 gallons (like newly opened jugs instead of ones that were opened previously), go drive it around until the oil gets dirty enough to make it easier to read.
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Yeah I let it sit five then ten minutes, I gave it a good half hour and now it's about 1/4 into the metal area between the red plastic. This was after driving it around so the oil was warm. Really weird, I guess I'll check it again tomorrow and see how it looks. Long as it's in the metal I'm OK with it, car hasn't used any oil that I've seen so far.
I learned a clean oil checking trick a while ago, lay the dipstick on a blue paper towel and pull it straight down sideways so the oil stains the paper and read it's position off that, helps with the clean oil thing.