Checking oil

[mverps]

I keep reading differing opinions on this. Do you check the oil with the dipstick unscrewed, or do you screw it back in and then out to check it?
thanks, Mike

[de dee]

you check the oil unscrewed!!!! it says so in your manual

[zombie]

unscrewed.
 The action of jiggling it around, lining up the threads, twisting it in/out can give a false reading.
You get a kind of cotton candy effect.

[mverps]

thanks, I read in one manual to check it unscrewed, and in another manual to check it screwed in. So you can see my confusion. I appreciate your input.

[BettinANDlosing]

Also, obvious, but make sure it is on the center stand on level ground!!!! You have no idea how many customers I've had over-fill their oil because they had it on the kickstand!!