Re: Oil dipstick
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2019 5:00 pm
alan.barker wrote:I think.
It doesn't matter about the angle only the vertical height from the sump gasket face.
Alan
It's all about the Hypotenuse.. imagine the dipstick as the hypotenuse of a right angle triangle with the oil surface as the lower side and the line from the top of the dipstick tube to the surface of the oil as the other side.
As the angle of the dipstick changes, the Hypotenuse drawn by the dipstick gets longer and the fixed oil marks change their heights in relation to the surface of the oil..
Pretty minimal unless the angle is massively different. If required, I'm sure you could work out a change in height per degree change in dipstick angle.. but I've got a beer that needs to be finished.
Jeremy