Just checked my oil...just below min!!
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Soldato
The guy who posted a picture of a dipstick (and it turned out he hadn't wiped it) or the chappy who worked in a motor factors and had a colleague who literally brimmed a Laguna.
Just for info it was bang on 1lGood for another 2 years now!!!!
over 2 year oil drains?
You do realise you are meant to change oil right ?
You don't change oil because it runs low.
I know, just never got round to getting it changed again. Doing a road trip in Summer so getting the car serviced then, in the mean time a top up will do
Soldato
That's fair enough as it's a huge effort to pop the car to a garage for an hour.
Soldato
I recommend this cut out and keep reference guide:
Created by someone else on this forum a while ago
what if there isnt any oil on the stick at all?
Soldato
Read the treeware. Most common is 2 litres between the max and min dots. The Italians tend to have 1 litre. Can't go assuming this.
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Soldato
what if there isnt any oil on the stick at all?
I done that to my old car. It didn't like it. Engine kept overheating.
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NO engine should be overfilled and a 2.5 V6 Durabang more so.
Overfilling the oil leads to the crankshaft counterbalances (which are normally only a few mm above the oil normally) plunging through the oil and causing aeration and cavitation. Over time (and it can be a short period of time) this will wreck the bearings that support the cams (all four of them) and the bottom end. Drop a big end cap and I bet some of the bearings are showing a goldy/yellow colour.
There is a max line for a reason.
And before anyone states I don't know what I'm talking about I've built many high spec engines:-
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Soldato
The CSG-625 is renowned for needing to be slightly over the max line though amiga, maybe they've calibrated the lines wrong?
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No, the issue with the CSG-625 is the poorly baffled sump, meaning that when you push the car hard the pick up pipe sucks up air, meaning terminal engine failiure extremely quickly. Putting more oil in cures this issue but introduces a whole host of other problems. The engine is still destroying it's bearings, just not as quickly.
The two correct methods of solving this issue are:-
Fitting a better baffled sump or dry sump system
or
Not pushing the car as hard through the twisty stuff.
The two correct methods of solving this issue are:-
Fitting a better baffled sump or dry sump system
or
Not pushing the car as hard through the twisty stuff.
Where else am I going to get the info? Ask them in halfords and as its not in the guide they dont know!
What makes you think its 2litres?
Soldato
then why did ford change the spec on the later engines to 6l from 5.5l without altering anything on the engine itself
