no oil on dipstick

[wheelhoss 2]

I've got a k321s that I had laying around and I just rebuilt it and I put 2 quarts of oil in it and it doesn't show and oil on the dipstick. The dipstick and tube doesn't look like itas been messed with. So I got a dipstick from my other k321s motors and they both read good. What do y'all think.

[TT-(Moderator) 1,131]

So I got a dipstick from my other k321s motors and they both read good.

You used a dipstick from another engine and the oil level reads OK in the rebuilt engine?

[wheelhoss 2]

Yes it reads ok when using a dipstick from my other k321s motors.

[wheelhoss 2]

The dipstick on the rebuilt motor doesn't so any oil on it.

[Save Old Iron 1,566]

"In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practice it much. In the everyday affairs of life it is more useful to reason forward, and so the other comes to be neglected. There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically."

take the dipstick that shows no oil level - put it in the "other K321's". If it doesn't indicate an oil level in the "other engines" then

please consider the source of your stupefaction may be that you possess a 'stick of insufficient proportion.

[wheeledhorseman 574]

Size does matter, length being the key factor! :ROTF:

[Anglo Traction 761]

Maybe the Oil doesn't like being with that stick (been waiting a long time to use Craig's Smiley).

Maybe the part numbers on the dipsticks are different :confusion-shrug:

Edited January 26, 2013 by Anglo Traction

[SousaKerry 501]

Sure sounds to me like some shenanigans have happened in the past with that dip stick.

Or a dipstick used the wrong stick, so to speak.

Edited January 26, 2013 by Sousakerry2

[rmaynard 15,407]

To make all the above simple, check the length of the dipstick that is not reading against the length of the one that does.

Edited January 26, 2013 by rmaynard

[squonk 41,010]

Sounds like your Kohlers are haunted! Give them to me and I'll exorcise them. :thumbs:

[boovuc 1,090]

Ah Ha, Watson! A Teflon dipstick! Personally, there are a lot of dipsticks going around here!

[TT-(Moderator) 1,131]

I'm pretty sure dipstick stretchers can be attained if you visit the proper website.

You might also want to check your e-mail spam folder for persons offering pills that allegedly accomplish similar results.

[varosd 1,185]

[chazm 413]

com'on guys and think about it...

I'm sure all of you have had this problem out in the garage with your dipsticks at one time or another :confusion-questionmarks:

[wheelhoss 2]

Thanks for y'alls concern.

[puddlejumper 67]

Well, I hate to say it but the short dipstick may be why you had to rebuild the engine, How much shorter is it than the others? A inch more I would feel like a king a inch less I would be a queen.

[Tankman 3,518]

Some years ago I heard 'bout gas station attendants keeping one finger

on the dipstick to deliberately read a quart short.

The "short stick" was shown to the driver. An empty oil can was used to

show the driver a quart was goin' into the block. A Fake La Jake!

The newly inserted dipstick was shown to the driver, the "lost" quart now

showing on the dipstick. That'll be $2 Miss. Thank you.

[ericj 1,578]

the late 80's kohlers use 2 1/4 gts of oil check your manuals. i changed oil in my 310-8 an added 2 qts and the dippstick was still low. found out later that kohler did change amount of oil used

eric j

[Sparky-(Admin) 21,294]

Aren't there deep oil pans and shallow oil pans? Maybe this motor used to be a shallow oil pan motor and was swapped to a deep oil pan motor so the original dipstick is now to short... ...thats all I could come up with. Do you know the history of this motor?

Justa wild guess of course.

Mike.....