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Originally Posted by bmarcinczyk14 So you're saying if there is nothing on the dip stick your only a quart low? I would think imagine it would take more than a

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Old 10-07-2013, 08:16 PM   #11 (permalink)
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So you're saying if there is nothing on the dip stick your only a quart low? I would think imagine it would take more than a quart low to show nothing on the dipstick...
Assuming the distance between the two holes is 1 qt and that distance on the stick vs. oil volume is linear, the bottom of the stick looks to me like it would be about 3/4 of a quart too low.

Just go ahead and suck some oil out through the dip tube and be done with it.
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