4L60E Dipstick Bracket
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4L60E Dipstick Bracket I recently took down a trailblazer transmission for overhaul. I'm in the final phases of putting the valve body back on the case but I noticed there isn't a dipstick retaining bracket and since I'm meticulously organized I'm pretty certain it wasn't there to begin with. Question where can I source the dipstick retaining bracket... or can I fabricate, use something else, etc?
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
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I'm used to having one bolted to the valve body where the dipstick tube enters the transmission as well. I just bent a piece of metal that approximated the size I thought it should be and finished up.
the newer 4l60e have a ledge in the tranny pan that serves as the dipstick stop bracket....if you dont have that bracket you can use the newer tranny pan....i dont believe that bracket is available from
GM anymore
GM anymore
Last edited by sjsingle1; Aug 19, 2018 at 10:40 PM.
it's a dipstick stop. Not a bracket, even the dictionary defines a bracket as a part that holds something.
I just changed my converter last week and installed a deep factory pan. I also changed the dipstick stop. The deep pan uses a black stop, the shallow pan uses a silver stop. Quite a coincidence that the dipstick rests on this part and stops it at the correct place for an accurate reading.
I'm just saying, if you're looking for a dipstick bracket, you're not going to find that part.
Another thing, it's not a retaining bracket. That by definition holds something in place, if you retain the dipstick with a 'bracket' in the pan, how do you get it out to check the fluid level.
I just changed my converter last week and installed a deep factory pan. I also changed the dipstick stop. The deep pan uses a black stop, the shallow pan uses a silver stop. Quite a coincidence that the dipstick rests on this part and stops it at the correct place for an accurate reading.
I'm just saying, if you're looking for a dipstick bracket, you're not going to find that part.
Another thing, it's not a retaining bracket. That by definition holds something in place, if you retain the dipstick with a 'bracket' in the pan, how do you get it out to check the fluid level.
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Guys,
The 4L60E update book
4L60E Update book
http://shop.ukrtrans.biz/wp-content/...E_HANDBOOK.pdf
pages 89 through 92 goes into much detail about the DIPSTICK STOP BRACKET.
Yes, I am missing one, and I don't think it was present on teardown.
keith
The 4L60E update book
4L60E Update book
http://shop.ukrtrans.biz/wp-content/...E_HANDBOOK.pdf
pages 89 through 92 goes into much detail about the DIPSTICK STOP BRACKET.
Yes, I am missing one, and I don't think it was present on teardown.
keith
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Guys,
The 4L60E update book
4L60E Update book
http://shop.ukrtrans.biz/wp-content/...E_HANDBOOK.pdf
pages 89 through 92 goes into much detail about the DIPSTICK STOP BRACKET.
Yes, I am missing one, and I don't think it was present on teardown.
keith
The 4L60E update book
4L60E Update book
http://shop.ukrtrans.biz/wp-content/...E_HANDBOOK.pdf
pages 89 through 92 goes into much detail about the DIPSTICK STOP BRACKET.
Yes, I am missing one, and I don't think it was present on teardown.
keith
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Tranzman,
My application is 2006 Suburban 1500 4wd, 4L60E.
I did learn that the pan had actually been changed, watching Hiram's, and others, youtube videos of 4L60E teardowns, and that, in fact, there was no physical part for the stop... This after we had pretty well searched my shop end to end, including dragging a magnet through the ashes of the wood-burner heater, wasting an hour or two, merely because I was not being observant or informed enough, on this aspect of 4L60E, when we removed the pan/valve body during disassembly.
My reason for pointing out the "update" pdf was twofold, one being for posterity to be apprised of differences in this aspect, and secondly, that the manual does call the part a "bracket", although this is not a GM manual.
After I read the prior posts on this, installed the tube, stick, onto the case bottom, I then measured the protrusion of the tip of the stick, and the depth of the pan, in that corner where the dispstick resides. It was totally apparent that the stop part had been dispensed with, for two reasons, one, the rise in the pan precludes the need for any stop, and also, that the tip of the dipstick had the loop welded onto it, to create a tip that couldn't be bent over easily by pushing, somehow, so hard on the dipstick while seating it (I am confident that it is impossible to do so, due to the toggle lock upper end handle on the dipstick, where it enters the widened bell of the tube.
All in all, this is end of my remarks on this disptick/tube/pan, it is all clear now.
My application is 2006 Suburban 1500 4wd, 4L60E.
I did learn that the pan had actually been changed, watching Hiram's, and others, youtube videos of 4L60E teardowns, and that, in fact, there was no physical part for the stop... This after we had pretty well searched my shop end to end, including dragging a magnet through the ashes of the wood-burner heater, wasting an hour or two, merely because I was not being observant or informed enough, on this aspect of 4L60E, when we removed the pan/valve body during disassembly.
My reason for pointing out the "update" pdf was twofold, one being for posterity to be apprised of differences in this aspect, and secondly, that the manual does call the part a "bracket", although this is not a GM manual.
After I read the prior posts on this, installed the tube, stick, onto the case bottom, I then measured the protrusion of the tip of the stick, and the depth of the pan, in that corner where the dispstick resides. It was totally apparent that the stop part had been dispensed with, for two reasons, one, the rise in the pan precludes the need for any stop, and also, that the tip of the dipstick had the loop welded onto it, to create a tip that couldn't be bent over easily by pushing, somehow, so hard on the dipstick while seating it (I am confident that it is impossible to do so, due to the toggle lock upper end handle on the dipstick, where it enters the widened bell of the tube.
All in all, this is end of my remarks on this disptick/tube/pan, it is all clear now.
Tranzman,
My application is 2006 Suburban 1500 4wd, 4L60E.
I did learn that the pan had actually been changed, watching Hiram's, and others, youtube videos of 4L60E teardowns, and that, in fact, there was no physical part for the stop... This after we had pretty well searched my shop end to end, including dragging a magnet through the ashes of the wood-burner heater, wasting an hour or two, merely because I was not being observant or informed enough, on this aspect of 4L60E, when we removed the pan/valve body during disassembly.
My reason for pointing out the "update" pdf was twofold, one being for posterity to be apprised of differences in this aspect, and secondly, that the manual does call the part a "bracket", although this is not a GM manual.
After I read the prior posts on this, installed the tube, stick, onto the case bottom, I then measured the protrusion of the tip of the stick, and the depth of the pan, in that corner where the dispstick resides. It was totally apparent that the stop part had been dispensed with, for two reasons, one, the rise in the pan precludes the need for any stop, and also, that the tip of the dipstick had the loop welded onto it, to create a tip that couldn't be bent over easily by pushing, somehow, so hard on the dipstick while seating it (I am confident that it is impossible to do so, due to the toggle lock upper end handle on the dipstick, where it enters the widened bell of the tube.
All in all, this is end of my remarks on this disptick/tube/pan, it is all clear now.
My application is 2006 Suburban 1500 4wd, 4L60E.
I did learn that the pan had actually been changed, watching Hiram's, and others, youtube videos of 4L60E teardowns, and that, in fact, there was no physical part for the stop... This after we had pretty well searched my shop end to end, including dragging a magnet through the ashes of the wood-burner heater, wasting an hour or two, merely because I was not being observant or informed enough, on this aspect of 4L60E, when we removed the pan/valve body during disassembly.
My reason for pointing out the "update" pdf was twofold, one being for posterity to be apprised of differences in this aspect, and secondly, that the manual does call the part a "bracket", although this is not a GM manual.
After I read the prior posts on this, installed the tube, stick, onto the case bottom, I then measured the protrusion of the tip of the stick, and the depth of the pan, in that corner where the dispstick resides. It was totally apparent that the stop part had been dispensed with, for two reasons, one, the rise in the pan precludes the need for any stop, and also, that the tip of the dipstick had the loop welded onto it, to create a tip that couldn't be bent over easily by pushing, somehow, so hard on the dipstick while seating it (I am confident that it is impossible to do so, due to the toggle lock upper end handle on the dipstick, where it enters the widened bell of the tube.
All in all, this is end of my remarks on this disptick/tube/pan, it is all clear now.
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4l60e lipstick bracket I'm literally at that exact same step in my process I didn't take the transmission apart but everything else was here and I searched everything and couldn't find it and I'm wondering if it was even in it like the video I'm watching says but one of the comments on here says it's at the end of the dipstick tube but it's supposed to hold the valve body down in the corner I don't know I'm about to say **** it and keep going. Not my car it's a friend's I've never built a transmission before and I completely did it new pistons and everything. Lmk ASAP if you figured anything out cuz like you I'm assuming it wasn't in there
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I'm literally at that exact same step in my process I didn't take the transmission apart but everything else was here and I searched everything and couldn't find it and I'm wondering if it was even in it like the video I'm watching says but one of the comments on here says it's at the end of the dipstick tube but it's supposed to hold the valve body down in the corner I don't know I'm about to say **** it and keep going. Not my car it's a friend's I've never built a transmission before and I completely did it new pistons and everything. Lmk ASAP if you figured anything out cuz like you I'm assuming it wasn't in there
