>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
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