Need Help with removing dip stick tube!
09-02-2006, 07:36 PM
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Need Help with removing dip stick tube! Ok, I am replacing my rear main seal this weekend and so far I have pretty much everything off of the transmission except for the freaking dip stick tube! I just cant get it out. I have the bolt out that holds it to the block and it just wont come out. Ive shaked it from the top and pryed at it from the bottom. Ive lowered the transmission/engine and raised the engine/transmission but it just wont come out. It keeps hitting the top of the engine compartment or getting stuck on a metal lip on the transmission.
Is there an easier way to get it out short of cutting it out?
Thanks guys!
Is there an easier way to get it out short of cutting it out?
Thanks guys!
09-03-2006, 12:54 AM
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Well if it helps...my oil dip stick tube that needed taken out for headers took me and 2 of my friends to get it out. One of my friends was on top of my car pulling and my friend was pulling him, I was pushin it up from the bottom.
I ended up just having to hit it upwards with a flatward screwdriver while they both pulled on it, took us in all honestly like half an hour to get that damn thing out.
I ended up just having to hit it upwards with a flatward screwdriver while they both pulled on it, took us in all honestly like half an hour to get that damn thing out.
09-03-2006, 04:27 PM
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When Im dropping trannys I dont even bother with the dip stick tube I just let it pull itself out when the tranny is almost down. I tryed removing the bolt that holds it in once before and I had alot of trouble getting the bolt back in. When I go to put the trans back in I just line up the dipstick hole with the tube as best as I can then the bellhousing lines up good also.
09-03-2006, 10:55 PM
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Damn! that sounds like a more practical way of doing it. Hell with the problems I am running into now with the transmission I would probably expect the tube probably wont go in correctly again when I reinstall her. By the way if you have 8mm hex head bolts holding the torque converter on you might as well just shoot yourself and save yourself the misery
09-07-2006, 09:09 PM
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Originally Posted by NemesisLS1
Damn! that sounds like a more practical way of doing it. Hell with the problems I am running into now with the transmission I would probably expect the tube probably wont go in correctly again when I reinstall her. By the way if you have 8mm hex head bolts holding the torque converter on you might as well just shoot yourself and save yourself the misery
