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Old 10-23-2013, 05:40 PM
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Anyone know what oil dipstick will work with 04 truck manifolds flipped around? I used the muscle car oil pan with my swap and the dipstick it comes with is not even close to fitting. I assume the truck one will work but before I try finding one I want to make sure it fits or can be bent to fit.
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You can always use the Lokar or equiv flexible dipsticks and tubes.

PS - is this going into a Mustang?
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Yes the 94 in my signature.
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If you have the motor out of the car I would use the stock one. Some have had luck bending the stock dipstick with the motor in the car as well. I spent about 2 hours bending mine and ended up breaking it. So I broke down and bought a Lokar LS dipstick. I had read mixed reviews but from my experience its a very nice unit and installs in just a few minutes. Reads accurate too.
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if its just the flipped manifolds the stock work ok you just gotta tweek them. but i picked up one of those nice lokar dipsticks since my other got trashed
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I forgot that lokar makes a diptstick I might just go that route instead of screwing around with bending a stock one. I don't have the stock one that came with my 5.3 to work with.
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I used a stock one with no issues. I just broke the tab off and no problems.
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used a camaro one and tweaked it...
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I used an 05 GTO one.



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