... that too much oil will blow the gaskets and kill your car just as surely as too little. And if your car still runs after running out of oil, you have already used up all the luck a mere human lifetime should offer.
How to check oil:seawaspOctober 7 2004, 14:15:43 UTC
Pull out dipstick. No, not you, the part of the car that you use to check oil with. Wipe clean with cloth or clean paper towel. Re-insert dipstick all the way. Look at where the oil comes up to on the end; there should be a point where the oil goes all the way across the width of the dipstick (i.e., if it's just on the edge, it doesn't count; that's probably just rubbing off the side of the tube). Compare where that point where the oil goes all the way from one side to the other is, relative to the points where the stick is marked "full" and "add". Once it reaches the "add" area, well, ADD one quart.
If you can't tell for sure, wipe off, and repeat again, until you CAN tell for sure. In some cars I've found this may take four iterations due to all the oil on the dipstick tube.
Also, see if you can get the engine cleaned, if the cap being off blew oil all over the crankcase.
thank you for the procedure!animejpopOctober 7 2004, 17:07:53 UTC
I had the basic idea down, but when I checked it yesterday at 2 different times; I apparently didn't do it carefully enough.
At lunch today, I noticed a few things: 1) The length of the stick is about 1.5' 2) There are 3 holes; 1 at 1 cm from the bottom, another 1 cm from that and the last at the top of the stick about an inch from the top.
So my assumption is that the 2 holes near the bottom indicate "full" and "empty. When I measured today, the oil line went up to half-way between the 2 holes, so I'm assuming that it's half-full now.
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When I posted that, I was at work (CSC, Rensselaer). I'm at home now.
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If you can't tell for sure, wipe off, and repeat again, until you CAN tell for sure. In some cars I've found this may take four iterations due to all the oil on the dipstick tube.
Also, see if you can get the engine cleaned, if the cap being off blew oil all over the crankcase.
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At lunch today, I noticed a few things:
1) The length of the stick is about 1.5'
2) There are 3 holes; 1 at 1 cm from the bottom, another 1 cm from that and the last at the top of the stick about an inch from the top.
So my assumption is that the 2 holes near the bottom indicate "full" and "empty. When I measured today, the oil line went up to half-way between the 2 holes, so I'm assuming that it's half-full now.
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2) If the car loosing oil you probably have a leak, and that could also produce the smoke too.
*It pays to have a dad who knows cars, and a car that has problems ^^
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Did you find me through SUNY's lj? That's the only common link I can find XD
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