Can I mix oil? Need answers ASAP!!
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Can I mix oil? Need answers ASAP!!
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I just bought my RX-8, it's half full of oil, and I don't know what kind. It's getting low, will it cause problems to put a probably different type of oil in the pan? If not, what kind should I use?
PLEASE DON'T TELL ME TO SEARCH OR CHECK MY MANUAL. I've tried, it doesn't work, and in the time it takes you to type your stupid immature comment you could have answered my question.
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-Falken
I just bought my RX-8, it's half full of oil, and I don't know what kind. It's getting low, will it cause problems to put a probably different type of oil in the pan? If not, what kind should I use?
PLEASE DON'T TELL ME TO SEARCH OR CHECK MY MANUAL. I've tried, it doesn't work, and in the time it takes you to type your stupid immature comment you could have answered my question.
Thanks,
-Falken
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I'm gonna give these ones to you. You'll notice the recommended oil weight is located on the oil cap itself (GF-3 5W-20). Theres a cover over both of these things so they can be hard to spot at first. As a jet engine mechanic, I'm sure you don't need be shown how to use the dipstick too, right?
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How are you guys getting a better read of the dip stick?
My dip stick has the marking and everything, but the oil is barely sticking on to the dip stick to get a good read of where oil is at full or low.
My dip stick has the marking and everything, but the oil is barely sticking on to the dip stick to get a good read of where oil is at full or low.
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He's as bad as Can
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Huge hole is huge
I put two holes in my dipstick.
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Sometimes people change the kind of oil they use on purpose (they want to switch to a different grade, or to synthetic, etc.); since a routine RX-8 oil change leaves some of the old oil in the system, mixing oil is apparently no big deal.
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I think he got that idea from the oil gauge.
"Seeing as how he specifically stated he filled the oil I assumed he had. The oil gauge reads a hair above half right now, is that enough??
"Seeing as how he specifically stated he filled the oil I assumed he had. The oil gauge reads a hair above half right now, is that enough??
Yes, I know how to work a dipstick, I eventually found it myself. I simply left this thread because I had to leave to go help my friend film something (thus we have the ASAP in the title, I didn't want to go anywhere on an unoiled car) and since than I have been just about everywhere in the city.
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I just bought my RX-8, it's half full of oil, and I don't know what kind. It's getting low, will it cause problems to put a probably different type of oil in the pan? If not, what kind should I use?
PLEASE DON'T TELL ME TO SEARCH OR CHECK MY MANUAL. I've tried, it doesn't work, and in the time it takes you to type your stupid immature comment you could have answered my question.
Thanks,
-Falken
I just bought my RX-8, it's half full of oil, and I don't know what kind. It's getting low, will it cause problems to put a probably different type of oil in the pan? If not, what kind should I use?
PLEASE DON'T TELL ME TO SEARCH OR CHECK MY MANUAL. I've tried, it doesn't work, and in the time it takes you to type your stupid immature comment you could have answered my question.
Thanks,
-Falken
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http://www.putfile.com/pic/5204222?pos=top The entire unit. The turbo spools up compressing air, putting it into a combustion chamber where a flame tube with precisely measured holes slows the air and lets it inside of itself, there it is mixed with fuel, lit, and blasted into the turbine wheel of the turbocharger for 20lbs thrust. I'm working on a larger one right now.
http://www.putfile.com/pic/5204233 I used a small turbocharger as the compressor/turbine.
http://www.putfile.com/pic/5204231 The ignition key is as of now totally miswired, I have to manually turn the distributor.
http://www.putfile.com/pic/5204232?pos=top The center hole is for kerosene, the left hole is for a high energy spark plug.
http://www.putfile.com/pic/5204228?pos=top A look down the tailpipe at the turbine wheel.
http://www.putfile.com/pic/5204226?pos=top The combustion chamber/flame tube's outlet into the turbine wheel.
http://www.putfile.com/pic/5204227?pos=top The turbo that is the heart of my engine.
http://www.putfile.com/pic/5204224?pos=top You can see the air outlet into the combustion chamber here.
http://www.putfile.com/pic/5204225?pos=top Another combustion chamber shot
Suck it, jerk
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