Dipstick

The dipstick on the Ford F150 series pickup is weird. Most dipsticks you can tell whether or not you need 1 or 2 or more quarts of oil. The Ford dipstick has about less than an inch of an indentated area at the bottom of the stick where you can see oil on the stick and it reads at the top end "Max" and at the bottom end "Min". That makes no sense to me. Can anyone tell me how to read this dipstick? Is Max full and Min empty? That doesn't make sense.

I assume the max is the maximum amount of oil you should have to safely operate the engine and the min is the minimum amount of oil you should have to safely operate the engine. It would be less confusing if it said "safe operating range" between those marks. Even though most modern engines use very little oil, check your oil often.

Max is when the oil is completely filled. Min is the minimum safe operating oil level. Usually the min mark is about one quart low.