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Dipstick tube
« on: 07 October 2007, 13:07:22 »
Anyone know how the dipstick tube comes out of the V6?
Tube is loose and spins around but don't want to come out. Yes I'm trying to get to the "awkward" manifold stud.
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Re: Dipstick tube
« Reply #1 on: 07 October 2007, 13:10:55 »
From a computer parts piccy I have, looks like one bolt to the top then an O ring seal at the bottom where it plugs into the block.
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Re: Dipstick tube
« Reply #2 on: 07 October 2007, 13:25:04 »
It's a pig of an O ring then.
I've disconnected the bracket, the tube rotates but don't want to come.
Biggest prob is getting a grip on it to pull the thing out without crushing it with the mole grips.
Then I can start on those awkward/broken studs.
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Re: Dipstick tube
« Reply #3 on: 07 October 2007, 13:41:12 »
If it helps, the diesel ones just pull out once you've undone the top mounting bolt.  The O ring is sometimes tight.

Chances are, you will knacker o ring, so get a spare ;)
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Re: Dipstick tube
« Reply #4 on: 07 October 2007, 17:35:51 »
Had another go but the bugger won't give.  >:(
I'm wondering about wrapping a rope round it and persuading it with the engine crane.
yes its getting that desperate.
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Re: Dipstick tube
« Reply #5 on: 07 October 2007, 18:23:32 »
What if you put the dipstick in partway that might stop the tube being crushed if you grip it the correct way>

Might be a dipstick idea though??
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Re: Dipstick tube
« Reply #6 on: 07 October 2007, 19:34:05 »
Can you push a piece of well fitting  steel bar into the dipstick tube to stop it being crushed by the grips?
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Re: Dipstick tube
« Reply #7 on: 07 October 2007, 21:43:57 »
I couldn't get mine out when i done the manifold either >:(
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Re: Dipstick tube
« Reply #8 on: 07 October 2007, 21:48:30 »
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I couldn't get mine out when i done the manifold either >:(
How did you get around it?
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Re: Dipstick tube
« Reply #9 on: 07 October 2007, 21:54:30 »
I just managed to get the stud out with nut stuck/rusted/siezed on it. Replacement was done by grinding a little bit off the new stud, it then just slips past nicely.
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Re: Dipstick tube
« Reply #10 on: 07 October 2007, 22:03:53 »
I actually found the pass side easier to do than the drivers side :o
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Re: Dipstick tube
« Reply #11 on: 07 October 2007, 22:10:06 »
I removed a manifold from a V6 at a breakers, the engine was on the ground and I couldn't pull the dipstick tube out - I wasn't gentle either. In the end I bent it to one side....

I though it was held in by an O-ring, but it's a stubborn b*gger.
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Re: Dipstick tube
« Reply #12 on: 08 October 2007, 00:22:53 »
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I couldn't get mine out when i done the manifold either >:(
How did you get around it?

You obviously havent had 3 shredded wheat this morning Capt'n......;D ;)
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Re: Dipstick tube
« Reply #13 on: 08 October 2007, 15:59:58 »
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I couldn't get mine out when i done the manifold either >:(
How did you get around it?

You obviously havent had 3 shredded wheat this morning Capt'n......;D ;)
Neither had my little gnome.
I think the welding is taking it out of him.
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