And here I thought I was the only one who did that
j
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> On Mar 15, 2016, at 11:57 AM, Scott Janzen <sjanzen@me.com> wrote:
>
> Ok, so here's the embarrassing follow-up story. I did not buy a borescope,
> figured I'd try fiddling with the dipstick one more time and then pull the
> engine out (fortunately just the long block, nothing else bolted on yet) and
> fix the oil pan baffle that I must have installed in the wrong position
> somehow.
>
> Stuck the dipstick in the hole in the block, it hit metal. Tried rotating
> it, no help. Went to pull the dipstick out of the other engine in the
> garage, figured I'd try that, and looking at the other engine I immediately
> knew what was wrong.
>
> Went back to my parts bench where all the disassembled car parts sit, found
> the dipstick and dipstick tube that I'd pulled out of the engine back in
> November and put them in. Everything worked fine. Figure it out yet?
>
> I had been trying to install a spare dipstick siting on the bench, without a
> dipstick tube, and had been inserting that directly into the block, and
> hitting the bottom of the pan.
>
> The missing part - the dipstick tube! Good for about 4" of dipstick depth -
> of course the dipstick was hitting something!
>
> It's a wonder I get anything done. Sometimes, after a long day in the
> garage, the powers of observation are apparently weak.
>
> What a dipstick,
>
> Scott
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