Member Since: 01 Jan 2008
Location: wiltshire
Posts: 5781
Oil Dip stick Level
Hi Guys/Girls, just checked me beauty ahead of a trip to Scotland via leeds tomorrow, the dip stick level I need to clarify.
In the destruction manual it shows a picy of two styles, mines the knobbly one. The level is just above the last knobbly one towards the bottom and it says that if the level to toward the end market, then add 1 litre, but on the dipstick it does not indicate what is the top, thus not sure where we should, if needed, fill him up to.
Surely the top knobbly is not the full indicator is it, coz it will drown the bloddy thing
I hasten to add, he's not moved at all today, so cold, very cold when I checked a few mins ago.
If anyone's got a scanner and can indicate on the diagram where it should be or just confirm which knobbly from the bottom normal level should be, that would put me mind at rest!!
If you've got this type 4th one up is the max fill one, not the one on it's own
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If it's on the bottom one I'd add half a litre and check it before adding any moreThe End
2nd Dec 2008 9:23 pm
character
Member Since: 01 Jan 2008
Location: wiltshire
Posts: 5781
just what I needed to know..... put approx 500ml of the finest Magnetec that Yeovil LR can buy, will go and check the level in a mo now that you've confirmed my thoughts, which is I've not got enough oil left
Halfords now do 1l packs of Castrol 5w30 for £11.99 or their own label to the correct Ford spec for £8.99 1l or £11.99 2l
spotty git in black and orange shirt wrote:
Halfords 5W/30 Part Synthetic Oil 1L is formulated to the same protection and performance standards as the leading brands. Suitable for most of the latest high efficiency engines including all modern Fords from 1998 on. Engineered to Ford specification WSS-M2C 913-B.
Features and Benefits:
Oil viscosity 5W/30
API SL CF
ACEA A1 B1
That Ford spec is the one LR recommend I know it's not considered "kind" to say no these days, but no. Just no, ok? And if it's not ok, still no.
2nd Dec 2008 9:57 pm
stapldm
Member Since: 11 Sep 2006
Location: Swine Town
Posts: 2330
Character, if mines anything too go by, then if you drag out your trusty electron microscope and focus it on lump number four; you'll find a small arrow pressed into the plastic, almost at subatomic level.
Apparently it's been placed there for some arcane ritual - I just haven't figured out what yet Dr. Ian Malcolm:
"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
Transgenic tomato anyone?
2nd Dec 2008 10:24 pm
frogall
Member Since: 29 Aug 2008
Location: Norfolk
Posts: 250
Probably the most irritating thing about a bloody good engine - can you believe somebody was paid to redesign a simple metal bar with easily read marks, into a plastic disaster that's impossible to figure out.
There cannot be a good reason for it I'm on a whisky diet. I've lost three days already.
2nd Dec 2008 11:05 pm
captain_sugar
Member Since: 05 Sep 2006
Location: Hradec Kralove
Posts: 1095
And bloody hard to get oil out of an overfilled engine!Some people get by
With a little understanding
Some people get by
With a whole lot more
I don�t know
Why you gotta be so undemanding
2nd Dec 2008 11:59 pm
zaphod
Member Since: 18 Sep 2007
Location: Magrathea
Posts: 357
stapldm wrote:
Character, if mines anything too go by, then if you drag out your trusty electron microscope and focus it on lump number four; you'll find a small arrow pressed into the plastic, almost at subatomic level.
Apparently it's been placed there for some arcane ritual - I just haven't figured out what yet
What a co-incidence, my seismic ground penetrating radar picked up one at the opposite end on lump no. 1, pointing the other way..................do you think they're meant to indicate min and max levels?????
Nah, if that were so, they'd have made it bl**dy obvious rather than having it in braille Sail Fast - Live Slow...
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