Re: oil pressure fluctuations

["Brian A.Tink" <batink@domain.elided>]

Bruce

English cars are reknown for their large capacities.

My history of cars commenced with a 1940 Austin A40, 4 cylinder, had a huge oil and water capacity.

Then I bought a 1960 (new at thew time) Morris major, again with large capicities in both oil and water.

And now I have a 2000 sedan, 2500S sedan and of course the stag, all of which a well endowed.

These large capacities are great for long distance, hot weather operation, something which I wouold safely assume never happens in the UK, but certainly in Australia, but it is a pain in cold climates and short distances which occur around Cnaberra during winter.

keep staggering  Brian


At 08:49 AM 17/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Brian:
>
>>To answer your question, sometime ago I changed the filter and oil and
>then I refilled my
>>actual messurement of the oil amount in pints as per the manual.  Startted
>the car and 
>>ran to fill filter etc and left it stand for a couple of hours.   It was
>then I discovered that the
>>level was about .25 inch above the level on the dip stick.  I now fill to
>this level.
>
>You know, I've never had a vehicle that took as much oil after a change as
>the
>owner's (or repair) manual said it should. I always though that this was
>because 
>there was no way to get ALL of the old oil out of the engine. So, because
>I've
>been afraid of having too much oil in the system I now add oil until the
>system
>reads as FULL on the dipstick. My two cents (or pence)...
>
>     Bruce
>
>      Bruce A. Krobusek
>President, Triumph Stag Club
>      '72 TR6  CC75665LO
>     '73 Stag LE23546UBW
>
>