Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums General Troubleshooting oil stravation cause..right here!

I don't know why he posted this in the dyno section but here it is..

THE CAUSE OF OIL STARVATION

hard to believe... even though everybody knows there's a problem there....As far as i'm concerned, i'm gonna calm down for a while until we get the new dipsticks!!!

Anybody knows when Ford figure it out? Was it just recently or it's been a while since....?

I posted it there because of everyones witchen and whining about "put it in the right place" and since it had the word dyno= in it-

they have known about the starvation problem from the start-
but why - they just found out about it about 10 months ago and the oil in the pan levels only recently- ie within the last couple of weeks.

well...I'm glad that we finaly have some real research done on this big problem.

I wonder when we will here something from ford?

The normal Ford dipsticks aren't bad enough... You need new ones!!!

Oh.. You mean the actual oil dipstick...

This isn't the first time Ford had a dipstick problem ...I changed the oil in my Mustang 5.0, put in the recommended 5 quarts, and it read almost 1 quart over full. (Yes, I drained both plugs). I posted a message about this to corral.net and someone wrote back saying that:

Ford goofed up on the dipstick.

Since they never bothered to fix it, they issued a TSB stating that the "max" mark isn't really the max mark and it's normal for the oil to be over the max mark after an oil change.

I just used a file to make a new "full" mark after changing the oil and adding 5 quarts.

You have to wonder if maybe Ford goofed up on the dipstick for the Contour, and covered it by specifying a smaller amount of oil rather than doing the right thing which is to redesign the dipstick.

Brian

So how much is the new "recommended" amount of oil to put in? I never knew the recommended amount before this anyway so either one will be helpful...

Okay, so what do we do.

Manual states oil capacities at:
Engine oil
- with filter 5.5 l (5.8 qts)
- without 5.0 l (5.3 qts)

Should I put ~6.5l in the tour?

That's funny because my manual says full is 5.2 litres!