Date:         Tue, 17 Mar 1998 13:15:05 -0500
Reply-To:     Don Gibbons <dgibbons@PRESRAY.COM>
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From:         Don Gibbons <dgibbons@PRESRAY.COM>
Subject:      Re: What's Correct Oil Level: MIN or MAX?!
Comments: To: Kevin J Turinsky <turinsky@JUNO.COM>, Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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While I have not checked oil temps, keeping the oil level to the low side does
seem to make oil consumption go down in my Eurovan. Last summer on a trip to FL
from NY I "precision filled" it to about 1/4 above the low mark. On the trip
down I used about that 1/4. Put oil in to the top mark and on the trip home used
about 1/2. For local driving this seems to be true too.

Less oil = less foaming/aeration = less oil vapor = less oil sucked out the
engine into intake?

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