Help with reinstalling oil dipstick tube
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Help with reinstalling oil dipstick tube
This past weekend I installed pacesetter long tubes and poly motor mounts. Everything is back together and I am waiting on my PCM to come back from the mail order tune. The only problem is I can’t get the oil dipstick tube back in. I pulled it out without even looking where the hole was and now I can’t find it. Any advice or pictures of where the hole is? It has to be close to the AC compressor and passenger motor mount but I can’t spot it from any angle.
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I must have "f"'d with this for a half hour before it finally popped right in. I had to lay across the engine bay, feel around with one finger till I found it, then guided the tube down alongside my finger. Good luck with the braille method.
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While you have it out, take that bolt to a hardware store and find the same threaded bolt without the flange on it. With headers, the bolt won't go all the way in. It will secure it from coming out, but it will be loose. FWIW, I still have not replaced the bolt for my dipstick tube and it's been about a year with it that way, but you might as well do it while it's out..
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While you have it out, take that bolt to a hardware store and find the same threaded bolt without the flange on it. With headers, the bolt won't go all the way in. It will secure it from coming out, but it will be loose. FWIW, I still have not replaced the bolt for my dipstick tube and it's been about a year with it that way, but you might as well do it while it's out..
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this thread could have gone so many ways im kinda disappointed in the maturity.... come on guys.... I mean we have steve gunn fingering the hole to find it...then the op finally found the hole and it slid right in....... WTF! how can these comments go unrecognized?
btw just shoulda put some hair around it.
btw just shoulda put some hair around it.
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While you have it out, take that bolt to a hardware store and find the same threaded bolt without the flange on it. With headers, the bolt won't go all the way in. It will secure it from coming out, but it will be loose. FWIW, I still have not replaced the bolt for my dipstick tube and it's been about a year with it that way, but you might as well do it while it's out..
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While you have it out, take that bolt to a hardware store and find the same threaded bolt without the flange on it. With headers, the bolt won't go all the way in. It will secure it from coming out, but it will be loose. FWIW, I still have not replaced the bolt for my dipstick tube and it's been about a year with it that way, but you might as well do it while it's out..