| Oil change question (gasp!) [message #322011] |
Sun, 13 August 2017 13:32  |
Justin Brady
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Hey guys,
So on our 5k trip we had a pretty good oil leak that I fixed 1/4 of the way through. That slowed consumption a lot.
I still had some oil consumption though. I had to add roughly a 1/2 quart or so every 500 miles which seemed excessive, but everything runs great, no smoke.
Today I changed the oil for the first time since the trip and I followed the recommendations of quite a few around here and put 5 qts in instead of 6. At 5 qts the dipstick reads just a bit under the "add" line, which coincidentally is where it seemed to end up after a bunch of miles without adding oil.
I suspect that the dipstick is wrong and I've been overfilling it and it burned it off, only for me to overfill it again etc.
So should I make a new mark on the dipstick or just keep track of it from here?
Justin Brady
http://www.thegmcrv.com/
1976 Palm Beach 455
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