Small Engine & Correct Oil Fill?

[gadget73]

As long as a camshaft belt is in a non-interference engine (and I think both of mine are non-interference), I don't have any issue with it.

Mine is interference, uses single-use head bolts, and has an option of 4 different thickness head gaskets, all of which are difficult to source. Also I think the tensioner is now obsolete. I don't love any of that. I think the belt is still fairly available though. I put a new one on when I got it.

also the heads are known to crack. Mine is a Schrodinger's cylinder head situation. No way to know if it is or is not unless the head is removed. Can't get in there with a camera since the precombustion chamber doesn't really open into the cylinder. I know it has a leaky head gasket, but its an external coolant leak. I dumped some mechanic in a bottle in there and it stopped. My plan is to ignore all of that as long as humanly possible.

 

[GordonW]

I'm a big fan of chain-driven DOHC. Change the oil, keep the chain tensioner happy, and you are good to go. Bikes and cars.

With as many destroyed chain guides as I've seen on "I Do Cars" videos- I'm a little leery of modern DOHC timing chain setups. When those plastic chain guides start to go, they can readily deposit plastic fragments into the oil pan pickup strainer. And by the time the chain starts making noise, the damage may already be done to the bearings.

I"d be nervous taking a timing chain setup like that, beyond about 120K miles without at least tearing in there and looking at it. And once you're in there, you usually, practically should just go ahead and change them out, with all the labor you've already sunk in there...

Regards,
Gordon.

 

[knockbill]

Possible they screwed up the dipsticks. Ford did that in the 80s and the fix was to simply do an oil change with the specified capacity and make a new scribe mark on the stick.

This^ Or I just fill it to correct amount and drill a small hole in dipstick so I can see it easily with these old eyes!!! I did that since I was young tho!

 

[Mr Boochie]

With as many destroyed chain guides as I've seen on "I Do Cars" videos- I'm a little leery of modern DOHC timing chain setups. When those plastic chain guides start to go, they can readily deposit plastic fragments into the oil pan pickup strainer. And by the time the chain starts making noise, the damage may already be done to the bearings.

I"d be nervous taking a timing chain setup like that, beyond about 120K miles without at least tearing in there and looking at it. And once you're in there, you usually, practically should just go ahead and change them out, with all the labor you've already sunk in there...

Regards,
Gordon.

I have Hondas and a Lexus IS. They don't wear out their chains.

With BMWs, on the other hand, you have to replace the chains at a prescribed frequency.

Porsche 911s are another crazy guide-and-tensioner replacement journey. Got to drop the engine.

 

[Hyperion]

What would you do if the manual specified 30 oz of oil and you couldn't physically get that amount into the engine?

Would you fill the engine up as high as it would go and ignore the dipstick level completely?

I say trust the dipstick level, unless you know there is an issue with dipstick measurement on your engine/unit. Not finding out from the manufacturer which is correct i.e. oil quantity, or dipstick level, just seems like avoiding the issue.

 

[ARC Tech-109]

Overall I'm not big on modern be it cars audio or technology in general especially when it runs on code written by some teenager bent on making everything a damn game. My world is on the trailing edge of technology and unlike parallel things of today everything still works.


This is my daily driver TV and I find myself listening to the stereo over my main system.
All tubes in the audio chain with 7591's for the output, yes 30 watts a channel and no mercy.