These cars can certainly keep ya humble.
Kg
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> On Mar 15, 2016, at 11:35 AM, J.C. Hassall <jhassall@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> And here I thought I was the only one who did that
>
> j
> Fat-thumbed from my iPhone
>
>> 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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