On any car your supposed to fill to the full mark on the dipstick nomatter what. There is always a good bit of oil still in the engine after youve drained most of it out. Does the manual specify if the 5 quarts includes filling the oil filter? In the manual for my 2003 it says fill with 6 quarts. The 4.6 mustang oil pans are all the exact same from 1996-2004.

 

my old 97 gt i used to put in 7-8 qts before it was full

 

[QUOTE=Frostbitten;6902193]On any car your supposed to fill to the full mark on the dipstick nomatter what. There is always a good bit of oil still in the engine after youve drained most of it out. Does the manual specify if the 5 quarts includes filling the oil filter? In the manual for my 2003 it says fill with 6 quarts. The 4.6 mustang oil pans are all the exact same from 1996-2004.[/QUOTE]


you may be wrong right there. The 96-98 oil pans have an insert for the oil gauge. The oil pans for the 99-04 dont. I just did a engine swap and didnt swap the 96 oil pan to the 04 motor and my gauge has a mind of its own. When I hit the gas, either hard or soft, the needle goes from low to high. If I wot the gauge goes all the way up to high and when I let go, the gauge goes bak to low! haha weird.

 

how is that possible? I was worried about 6qts

 

6.1 litres here

 

idk,i even remember going to get my oil changed and told the guy i usually put in 8, he charged me for 6 because he didnt believe me and then he put 8 in i thought i would get away without paying for the last 2, i was wrong and had to pay separate for the 2 qts since it was synthetic. This was to fill it to the max on the dip stick,and maybe it had something to do with the oil filter too but i crashed that car a week later so it doesnt matter now.

 

youll be fine with 6 qrts.

 

I have a new 2015 Mustang 5.0 and the owners manual calls for 8 quarts? The garage that changed the oil only put 6 quarts when changing the oil? Should I add the other 2??

 

what does the dipstick say? If full then the correct amount of oil is in the engine regardless of what the paperwork says.

Old thread btw. Nearly 5 years young

 

My 04 4.6 gets 6 quarts and a new filter with every change.Dipstick is aok.