Re: [GMCnet] Dip stick calibration question [message #271488 is a reply to message #271474] |
Mon, 09 February 2015 09:02 |
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Matt Colie
Messages: 8547 Registered: March 2007 Location: S.E. Michigan
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Ken Henderson wrote on Mon, 09 February 2015 07:22Adrian,
The photo you should look at is http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/455-oil-pan-capacity/p10800.html
which more accurately shows the relationship of the various parts (disregard the un-trimmed dipstick tube).
There, you'll see that the two rods just right of the dipstick tube are near the bottom of their strokes and that they're at least 4" below the pan flange. In other works, they swing to within less than 3/8" from the 3 q. oil pool. If there's 4 q. in the deep end of the pan, the rods will definitely be submerged.
I apologize to everyone for having not anticipated all these factors when I originally made and posted the photos -- I could have made them more clearly and less ambiguously display the parameters of interest.
Ken H.
Americus, GA
'76 X-Birchaven w/Cad500/Howell EFI & EBL,
Manny Brakes & 1-Ton, etc., etc.
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Wow Ken,
That sure is a definitive set of pictures.
One of the things those tell me is that there has got to be at least 2 quarts of oil "in process" when the engine is running.
That is a lot. But I sure can't complain. It doesn't actually cost anything to run that way.
Matt
Matt & Mary Colie - Chaumière -'73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
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SE Michigan - Near DTW - Twixt A2 and Detroit
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