Good advice. My '88 GM and '89 Mustang both read overfull with 5 quarts in the pan. I scribed the other side of the dipstick and called it good.
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That makes sense, I know I only put 5 quarts in.
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My 89 is the same fill it with 5 qts and it is over the full mark. I have had it changed at the Ford dealer and it comes out over the full mark from them too.89 CV LX 225/60 x 16 tires, CC819 rear springs, Front & rear sway bar, trans & PS cooler from 90 cop car. KYB shocks, F-150 on rear. Dual Exhaust w/ H pipe. Dark brown door panels, carpet, steering wheel, trim parts from a 87 Mer GM. Power front buckets from 96 Jeep Cherokee. LED'S front & rear. 3G Alt from a 97 Taurus wagon 3.0. Electric fan. Rear axle from a 97 PI 3.27 with disk brakes. Headlight relays.Comment
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haha if you want to hear a funny story when i first got my car i decided i would be cool like that and change my oil...... little did i know there are two drain plugs... so i guess i drained like a quart or two from the front and added like five )= i even drove it 20 miles back to my house before i realized it was acting kinda sluggishComment
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doh... introduce yourself to the forum http://www.grandmarq.net/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=24Originally posted by TehBrownCrown View Post~David~
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my car starts and it has AC. Yours doesn't start and it has no AC. Seems obvious to me.
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From what I've seen:
'79-87 Dipsticks are correct
'88 and '89 Dipsticks are off by a quart (they read a quart high when you put in five quarts)
The low mark is the same, the high is off. I swaped the between my '87 (sorry LTDMan83) and '88 so I could have a good dipstick in the car I drive the most.1990 Country Squire - under restoration
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Originally posted by Tiggie View Post
HAHAHA, I noticed that dipstick had different markings on it, from the original '79 to '87 dipsticks that I have seen. I just figured it was probibly from a truck 302.
I replaced it, and It now lives in my Merc's HO engine, which only takes 4 1/4qts to be correctly full, so it actually is right for that particular engine, lol.Comment
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HO motors take 5 quarts with a filter change, same as a lopo. Ignore the dipstick, just put the right amount of oil in there and make a new scratch mark on the stick.86 Lincoln Town Car (Galactica).
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This one actually does take 4 1/4qts, as it has a custom Oil Pan. Someone dented in the rear sump of the pan with a floor jack, removing a little over .75 of its capacity. It doesn't leak, and the drain plug is fine, so I'm not really worried about it. The 88+ dipstick just happened to match this oil pans "modified" capacity, lol.Comment
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