legacycentral bbs

Something odd, I'd like to get confimed. What is the oil volume
required to take the sump level from LOW to FULL on an EJ20
(1991 quadcam, naturally breathing)?

I'd been monitoring oil level on this new (to me) car for
a few weeks and was happy to see it was using essentially no oil.
Then about 1500km later I was shocked to find the level below
the add line! I ran around trying to find a single litre of 10W-30
at local petrol stations (out of fashion here I guess) and finally
had to resort to dumping only what I had, about 1/5 litre spare
that I had left over from the last oil change. With that small
volume, it is now slightly overfull, which means, the ADD to FULL
difference is actually less than 1/5 litre. No wonder people have
so much trouble with overfilling these engines.

The level really was that low. I checked it at the pump, then again after
sitting overnight. Oil level just contacted the bottom few mm of the stick.
Same both times.

Chris

you might have better luck asking this at www.rslibertyclub.org/forums/ but generally its 1 qt from low to full (doesn't apply to everythinG)

I think you're right about 1 litre. That would be the case for every
car I've owned. Unfortunately, my owner's manual is in Japanese
I did look over at Josh's site where he scanned an early nineties owner's
manual in english and sure enough, it says 1 litre. (or one US quart, almost the same)
so I will need to find out what is going on here. I'll report back when I do.

Chris