double dipper dilemma

[California]

..especially if using the shorter of the 2, will have you over filling the crankcase, and could explain why or if you might been seeing oil blowing out the vent tube,

deepNdirt, I think you are on to something here.

I'm home in town so I can't look at my YM240, but I thought my metal-top oil dipstick was longer than Ginormous' photo.

Again, I suggest pour in four quarts of oil and see if that reads halfway up the oil dipstick. I think it is calibrated so 'full' = 4 liters, about 4.2 quarts.

Another variable: Is your dipstick on the left, or right? Early 2TR20 had the dipstick on the right. Maybe the mount point for that one is lower, so a shorter dipstick might have been used. Again, pour in 4 quarts to verify the dipstick.

 

[kenmac]

my oil would never fit into the hyd location & vise versa. My hyd stick has oil/ Japanese. I bought a new 1 (hyd stick) from Danny parker a few years ago for a spare. It was ordered from yanmar for 336. It also has oil/ Japanese

 

[clemsonfor]

deepNdirt, I think you are on to something here.

I'm home in town so I can't look at my YM240, but I thought my metal-top oil dipstick was longer than Ginormous' photo.

Again, I suggest pour in four quarts of oil and see if that reads halfway up the oil dipstick. I think it is calibrated so 'full' = 4 liters, about 4.2 quarts.

Another variable: Is your dipstick on the left, or right? Early 2TR20 had the dipstick on the right. Maybe the mount point for that one is lower, so a shorter dipstick might have been used. Again, pour in 4 quarts to verify the dipstick.

I always have put 5 quarts of oil in my engine. :ashamed: I thought i read that in the manual, and it fills it up to the top of the cross hatches? What are the others doing?

 

[Ginormous]

I'm thinking if either of the 2 are the incorrect ones for the engine you may not been using the right amount of oil all this time, especially if using the shorter of the 2, will have you over filling the crankcase, and could explain why or if you might been seeing oil blowing out the vent tube,

Added my oil based on the quoted capacity, not based on the stick -- 5 qts according to my research ... so I should be good there. Part of what got me thinking about the sticks being switched is that it looked low when I checked it. Now I'm wondering where it ought to be on the stick and whether or not I'm burning oil...

 

[clemsonfor]

Added my oil based on the quoted capacity, not based on the stick -- 5 qts according to my research ... so I should be good there. Part of what got me thinking about the sticks being switched is that it looked low when I checked it. Now I'm wondering where it ought to be on the stick and whether or not I'm burning oil...

Mine with 5 quarts on my engine oil dipstick will be at the top of the cross hatches. It stays there all year this last year i dont think i put 30 hours on it but even in a year that i put 50 on the oil it did not move from the line, well that i could tell. Could of moved a 1/16 or 1/8 but i dont look at it that close, just real quick when i check it to make sure there is oil in it and in the correct spot.

 

[kenmac]

My manual states 6.8 qts. 7 since I use a little larger oil filter

 

[Ginormous]

My oil isn't really due to be changed yet, but I'm going to go ahead and do it so that I know for sure where 5 qts shows on the stick. Then I'm going to watch to see if it drops... What is the most likely culprit if it IS burning oil?

 

[clemsonfor]

Worn rings, letting oil into the combustion chamber. Its no really big deal. As long as your making power and not adding a qt every time you use it i would not be that concerned with it.

 

[Car Doc]

I am going to post my opinion and then go back read the thread :laughing: I think based on my tractor the long one is the trans and the short one is motor. I agree totally with all the guys that say fill it to the correct amount and read it that way you cant argue with common sense.

Mine wont interchange fwtw but my trany is the longer one that I know for a fact.

My motor oil add mark I believe is 2 US qts but I may be wrong that might have been my old Massey?

 

[California]

From YM240 (Ym2000) Operation Manual: Oil capacity = 5 liters (5.3 US quarts).

YM195 (YM1700) page is identical except YM195D transmission 16 qt and front axle 5.3 qt.

(click on this).