Dodgy Dipstick? or am I the dipstick?

[golders]

Is it me or is the 200sx Dipstick dodgy?

I have put in over a litre and a half of FS Oil and it hardly registers on my stick.

There is a reading but it's very faint.

Is this normal? The car does not leak any oil at all.

Can you please help as I am scared of damaging the turbo through lack of oil.

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Cheers,

Golders
-Burgundy '93 S13 200sx (with a bloody CAT on it!! Damn it!)

Self advertising (as usual):
Golders Performance Cars:
http://www.geocities.com/golders_uk

Total 200sx:
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[golders]

please help!

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Cheers,

Golders
-Burgundy '93 S13 200sx (with a bloody CAT on it!! Damn it!)

Self advertising (as usual):
Golders Performance Cars:
http://www.geocities.com/golders_uk

Total 200sx:
http://www.geocities.com/total200sx

[Cormac_S13]

Listen, I dont want to be a soothsayer of doom but I had the same problem. I could not get a reading. Soon after a conrod left the engine block.

Check your oil pressure.




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1991 S13 Blitz MSTT
Tranparent tax disc holder

[Beamish]

Yep the dipstick is crap,
Assuming u have no leaks the beat way to ensure u have the correct level is do an oil change (3 litres,3.5 with new filter).
I agree totally what were Nissan thinking of when they designed the dipstick!!!

[dunc]

I second the opinion that the dipstick is pants! I went to look at a 200sx once that was showing nothing on the dipstick even though the oil had just been changed..

[andyf]

Just got this thread confused with "Race Technology Performance Meter, any good?" and got Race Technology Performance Dipstick.. Matt_S, do you sell these? http://300zx.co.uk/200sx/ubb/biggrin.gif http://300zx.co.uk/200sx/ubb/biggrin.gif

[Ripper]

There isn't a great deal to complain about with the S13 but the leccy aerial is sh!te and whoever dreamt up the dipstick is a f*cking idiot.

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Ripper

Grey '93 S13 Auto
Mods: Uprated smelly tree
Tree uprated at Ripper laboratories, Florida.
Please, no Scrabbly Nonsense!

[Richy_Boy]

Would it be worth measuring the dipstick, and going down the local breakers in hunt for a better one.. like from a 405 or something.. It is cr@p!
Surely many of them are the same diameter, and just have a helpful measure onthe end!

Rich


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Rich

180 to 210 BHP @???? rpm
S13 J reg Graphite Grey - ND200, Koni Adj., 17" wheelz, dropped. Broken.

[Ripper]

I wouldn't........

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Ripper

Grey '93 S13 Auto
Mods: Uprated smelly tree
Tree uprated at Ripper laboratories, Florida.
Please, no Scrabbly Nonsense!