**** Dip Stick

Mine seems to work okay, or as well as any oil dipstick. It is long, but I assume that's because it's a long distance from the top of the hood to the actual oil crankcase, especially with the engine being as much under the dashboard as under the hood.

It's always harder to tell oil level on a dipstick with new oil since it's still nice and light in color. Sometimes I find it helps when reading to hold the dipstick on a paper towel and see where the towel gets stained.

No one has ever changed or checked the oil on our 2009 Motorhome except me. My experience is totally different than yours. My oil level indicator on the dipstick is clear as can be.

I've used this procedure since I first started driving, pull the dipstick out and clean it. Put it back in, pull it back out and read the level. 6 Quarts of Mobil 1 is what I put in our E-450, every 7,500 miles or once a year, whichever comes first.

-Michael

Same technology for checking oil levels since............Model Ts?

Maybe a hole in the floor or the dog house? If you want one end in the oil and the other end where you can reach it it will have to go from one end to the other. I have seen longer dip sticks then your V10 ford has.

I can't tell you how to read the dip stick, but I might know where the oil is coming from half up? IF, and that's the big IF here, you pull your dip stick out, wipe the end of it off and then put it back down to read the oil, it's possible that from pulling the dip stick out the first time, the oil on the end of the stick is rubbing / coming off someplace half way up the tube as it makes contact with the dip stick tube.

Then when you reinsert the dip stick for your reading, it's contacting the oil that rubbed off the first time you withdrew the dip stick. If this is the case, only pull your dip stick out once and read it. Don't wipe it off and then stick it back in for the reading. This method won't work if you've shut the engine off from splashing oil all around in the last 30 minutes, but let it sit overnight or several hours and it should work just fine.

Bill

You are preaching to the choir. They have to be able to design something better.