I finally got the dip stick out of my s/c tonight ... Wholly roflroflroflrofl ... It turned out easy ...

All I had to remove wa the speedo cable bracket ...and learned ---thanks to this forum --- that the dip stick threads in ...

I removed the dip stick and I had oil !! Although it was low low , and the magnet on the dip stick end was black , this oil that was in there was clean ....

i put royal purple 75-90w back in 130mLs. .

the ban had 219,000 on her hope to put a couple hundred more on it , s/c sounds great now