Oil capacity

["Woolf,Richard" <richard.woolf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Klebert,
 My '66 takes 6 quarts with a filter change. The very first time I changed
the oil and filter I added 5 quarts, ran the motor for about 3 minutes then
I checked it finding out that I was a quart low. I added the sixth quart
bring the oil capacity up to the full mark. It's weird because the manual
only calls for 5 quarts with a filter change.

Rich Woolf
'66 Crown
'73 LeBaron
and soon '75 LeBaron

-----Original Message-----
From: Klebert L. Hall [mailto:swampyankee@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 5:45 PM
To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: IML: Oil capacity


>From: "B.A. Samoila" <fift8imperial@xxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: IML: '65 Imperial Oil dipstick
>
>Heres a question for you all...I changed the Oil in my '65 Imperial a few
days back..
>changed the filter too, put in five quarts like the manual said...four plus
one for filter change...
>and my dipstick says I'm a quart low...now this is an all original '65
Convertible with the 413...
>funny thing is that about 10 years ago I was driving another '65...this one
a Crown four door
>hardtop and its dipstick read the same thing...one quart low after adding
five quarts...can
>anyone explain this phenomonea to me or should the 413 in fact take 6
quarts like my '64
>Dodge Custom 880 with the 361 indeed does do?

      The modern filter may take more oil than the one the manual thinks
you're using. Usually, the
modern filter takes _less_ oil if anything, but I see no reason why the
opposite might not sometimes
happen.
      -Kle.
      '69 Crown 4DHT