1.7TD oil

[Jack]

Thought I had a cav haynes, apparently not lol

Anyone know off hand what the oil capacity for a 1700TD isuzu engine is?

[Damo]

4.5lts iirc jack.

Damo.

[General Baxter]

that engine wont be in the cav's big book of lies anyway

[Jack]

Arr, does it not cover the isuzu diesel? I did think that, so went to check... thats when I realised the "own a cav Haynes" must have been a dream lol

[General Baxter]

nope theres another just GM/izuzu engine haynes

[jord4n]

yep, defo 4.5lts as iv got this engine in my astra van and just done a oil change. norm 10w 40 too :)

[Jack]

Nice, cheers boys. Rep stick deployed lol

[davidfox280585]

my comma book stated 5-40 fully synthetic thats what i used to put in but its not cheap, i used to change it at every 10k as the oil was free to me :-)

[Adam]

As Baxter said, the izuzu engine has a haynes manual just to itself,Lol.

[General Baxter]

the question is, how the hell did they manage to fill a manual, with the worlds most simplist engine lol

[mowgli]

theres about 48 pages on how to do a cambelt...

[twistysnovagte]

haynes says;

engine oil capacity: 5.00 litre(8.8 pint) approx

coolant system drain and refill 7.7 litre (13.6 pint) approx

cavalier/ascona engine's with increased sump capacity are indentified by having a "green" dipstick.(doesnt cover this unfortunatly)

hope this helps(out of my manual ;)