DeTomaso Mailing List: July 97, Message #48
     



From: JDeRyke@aol.com

Subject: Re: Lost Oil

Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 13:47:42 -0400 (EDT)



There's one other remote possibility: how long is your dipstick? A guy called

me a few days back, ready to sue his engine builder. Seems he had over 2000

miles on a new engine and it still smoked. Obviously the rings never seated.

By chance he mentioned the smoking went away when it was a qt or two low.

Eventually we got around to measuring, and his dipstick was 1-1/2" shorter

than stock! He'd been faithfully pouring 10 qts into his 10-qt oil pan, not

realizing that most "10-qt pans" hold about 8 qts. Proper length per the TSB

(5) #34 is 38" from tip to the stop that touches the guide tube. Mine is

38-1/8". 



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