Thread: D4 2.7 fuel flap sticker

Originally Posted by bbyer

.... I like to check oil before startup when the engine is cold. ...

That's the only way it should be read : stone cold , gravity accumulated.
If it's hot , then it's all over the block's volume , and the reading is useless. I'll keep to convention . If I followed the views that I come across , I'd be bankrupt and dead several times a year !

Originally Posted by Neil P

That's the only way it should be read : stone cold , gravity accumulated.
If it's hot , then it's all over the block's volume , and the reading is useless. I'll keep to convention . If I followed the views that I come across , I'd be bankrupt and dead several times a year !

Yes, checking oil level with the engine cold, after a while, one knows what to expect as to colour and fluid level, etc.

When the engine is cold, the dip stick is pretty easy to read both the first time I pull it out and then the second just to see if the reading remains the same. Also I can kind of smell the oil and feel it - hot, it is just not the same as the oil seems to climb up the dip stick tube, (or down), and sort of fouls up the level readings and thins out and gets more clear; also I am not certain if I am smelling the oil or the engine.

As to the money, keeping some is what I am trying to achieve by checking the oil level when cold. Now if it was the tranny, and if it had a dipstick, well that is different; also I seem to recall the old air cooled Porches that had oil tanks were check hot, but then they were sort of a dry sump type of engine - something I try to avoid with the 3.

I guess that is why the "check oil level when hot" heat symbology on the Diesel Land Rover gas flap sticker did not register with me. There is nothing like that on the NAS LR3 but that is probably because LR does not consider us here smart enough to check the oil level ever - hence the electronic readout stuff on the D4. I guess you Diesel guys can consider yourself on a higher level, and with deeper pockets.