oil level question

[BYprodriver]

Originally Posted by san rensho

The manual says to check the oil with the motor at full operating temperature, which means a good half hour or longer of driving. Then turn the car off and wait a few minutes. I wait 5. Then check with the dipstick. The level should be between the marks.

Using this method, when the stick shows full, if I check the oil in the morning, before I start the car, the dash oil level is above max and the dipstick also shows above full. I believe this is perfectly normal since the specified method for checking the oil is a few minutes after shut down, not in the morning after its been sitting all night.

If your dipstick shows the correct level with the above method, you are ok.

Anytime you properly check oil level with the dipstick & the oil level is above the full mark it's because there is to much oil in the engine! If the car is parked on level ground & the dipstick is correctly installed, there is no way for the oil level in the sump to read higher than it should. It may read lower since oil does not drain well from the heads. That's why there is a oil evacuation pump in each head, but they stop when the engine is not running. It takes weeks for oil to stop draining into the sump, that's why it is so difficult to add enough oil to be perfectly full & not over full. 3/4 full is fine.