Dipstick
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I wuz gonna try based on the 1st post....but now I'm too confused to be any good to anyone much less someone that's asking for help that's gonna get it when they ask for help 'cause they ask
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I don't know if anyone remembers....about a yr ago there was someone that had an issue with his battery cable shorting against the block, passenger side. As it turns out that cable was laying against the dipstick and the short had welded the stick to the tube.!
might be why this one won't come out? or maybe someone just put it in backwards??
might be why this one won't come out? or maybe someone just put it in backwards??
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I don't know if anyone remembers....about a yr ago there was someone that had an issue with his battery cable shorting against the block, passenger side. As it turns out that cable was laying against the dipstick and the short had welded the stick to the tube.!
might be why this one won't come out? or maybe someone just put it in backwards??
might be why this one won't come out? or maybe someone just put it in backwards??
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If the dipstick tube/housing is broken off even with the block also and the stick/indicator is still locked in the tube you will need to remove the oil pan likely and drive the stick/indicator out. The tube/housing will require a similar procedure. If the stick can be removed from the tube I've seen an extractor used to remove the section that's broken off in the block.
If you don't have the engine oil cooler removing the oil pan isn't a particularly tough task. If you have the cooler then it becomes considerably more of a nuisance I'd think.
If you don't have the engine oil cooler removing the oil pan isn't a particularly tough task. If you have the cooler then it becomes considerably more of a nuisance I'd think.
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If the dipstick tube/housing is broken off even with the block also and the stick/indicator is still locked in the tube you will need to remove the oil pan likely and drive the stick/indicator out. The tube/housing will require a similar procedure. If the stick can be removed from the tube I've seen an extractor used to remove the section that's broken off in the block.
If you don't have the engine oil cooler removing the oil pan isn't a particularly tough task. If you have the cooler then it becomes considerably more of a nuisance I'd think.
If you don't have the engine oil cooler removing the oil pan isn't a particularly tough task. If you have the cooler then it becomes considerably more of a nuisance I'd think.
know understanding the problem its easier to come up with ideas !
I'm gonna go with WVZR on this. I WAS thinking of an 'easy-out' type of solution, but that might end up with metal shavings in the pan where ya really don't need them...so the pan has to come off anyway.
No matter what other idea...it still involves taking the pan OFF.
good luck...simple solution, just a PITA, that's all.
