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'75 308 GT4 (Peter)
Intermediate Member
Username: Peter
Post Number: 2475
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Monday, February 10, 2003 - 3:40 pm: | |
Randall: "...It needs another marking for a cold non-running engine".
I just remember 3/8" - 7/16" above the Max line for a cold, sitting-around-for-a-few-days engine.
Yours may be different...
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Randall Booth (Randall)
Junior Member
Username: Randall
Post Number: 72
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, February 10, 2003 - 2:22 pm: | |
Why do they make the markings the way they do? It needs another marking for a cold non-running engine |
Lawrence Coppari (Lawrence)
Member
Username: Lawrence
Post Number: 500
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Monday, February 10, 2003 - 6:18 am: | |
The swirling of the stick enables it to bend in any direction. If you notice, it bends in more than one direction. Doubt a flat dip stick would work. |
Peter Sedlak (Peters)
Junior Member
Username: Peters
Post Number: 82
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, February 09, 2003 - 10:23 pm: | |
Peter, thank you..That was my burning question of the month!
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'75 308 GT4 (Peter)
Intermediate Member
Username: Peter
Post Number: 2462
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Sunday, February 09, 2003 - 2:49 pm: | |
It centers the dip stick in the tube, this keeps it from rubbing off the oil along the tube walls when you pull it out.
The following method is very crude (and I really can't suggest it), but if you want a flat dip stick, just get some steel banding, cut to the same length and mark the high-low marks with lettered punches. The spiral stick is held in by either a roll-pin or a set-screw (never paid attention to it so I can't exactly say how its held in). |
Peter Sedlak (Peters)
Junior Member
Username: Peters
Post Number: 74
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, February 09, 2003 - 10:49 am: | |
Every time I check my oil, the spiral design of the dip stick drives me nuts!..Enough said! Why did Ferrai design the stick this way and is there flat dip sticks available anywhere?.. |