Broke the oil dipstick!
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Broke the oil dipstick! so i was putting my headers on tonight and during the process when we were trying to pull the dipstick out for the motor oil it broke...there is still a little piece stuck in the hole and the rest of the dipstick broke off........u guys have any suggestions on what to do...or if its going to be real bad leaking and will it be bad for me to drive it for a couple of days b 4 i fix it??? also my buddy was telling me that i should just go to Home Depot and find a little pice of pipe to go into the dipstick and maybe weld it together????? any suggestions would be reallly good...i dont know what to do...beside buying a new one from the dealership which will rip me off!!! 
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So you broke the tube off in the block? Did any of the dipstick break off into the pan?
Make sure you don't have any metal floating around in there and you can just cap it off until you get a new tube/stick. My buddy got rid of his tube and just sealed it up.
You can go to a junkyard to find one or I doubt the dealership would charge so much that it will break the bank.
Make sure you don't have any metal floating around in there and you can just cap it off until you get a new tube/stick. My buddy got rid of his tube and just sealed it up.
You can go to a junkyard to find one or I doubt the dealership would charge so much that it will break the bank.
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HELLOOOOOOOOOOO....did you break the dipstick itself or the tube???
You ask for help and when someone tries to offer it to you but needs more information that you clearly aren't giving you just TTT right past me. Very nice....apparently I'm not "anyone".
Have fun figuring it out....while I may not know it all, I've owned an Fbody for 8 years and do all of my own work.
Have a great day....and yup, I'm in a crappy mood.
You ask for help and when someone tries to offer it to you but needs more information that you clearly aren't giving you just TTT right past me. Very nice....apparently I'm not "anyone".
Have fun figuring it out....while I may not know it all, I've owned an Fbody for 8 years and do all of my own work.
Have a great day....and yup, I'm in a crappy mood.
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Originally Posted by GhostZ
HELLOOOOOOOOOOO....did you break the dipstick itself or the tube???
You ask for help and when someone tries to offer it to you but needs more information that you clearly aren't giving you just TTT right past me. Very nice....apparently I'm not "anyone".
Have fun figuring it out....while I may not know it all, I've owned an Fbody for 8 years and do all of my own work.
Have a great day....and yup, I'm in a crappy mood.
You ask for help and when someone tries to offer it to you but needs more information that you clearly aren't giving you just TTT right past me. Very nice....apparently I'm not "anyone".
Have fun figuring it out....while I may not know it all, I've owned an Fbody for 8 years and do all of my own work.
Have a great day....and yup, I'm in a crappy mood.
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ok now sorry abouit the TTT..it was early this morning and i did not see the previos post...my bad...but what happened was when we were trying to take out the dipstick it broke right at the end where it goes inside there is a little piece still sticking out maybe less than an inch sticking out and the rest of the dipstick is broken off....does that clear anything up/.....and my bad for the TTT use
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we tried to but i think the only way to get it out is removing the whole oil pan....do u think it would be smart to just leave it partially in till i can get an entire new one??
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now my car is shaking when i take off...do u think it coulod be realated from the dipstick where there is too much oil spilling out and it doesnt have enough oil???? or do u think its the spark plug wires touching the headers..i burned #5 and # 8....but im not sure...it feels like a shaing when i start to acclerate...once im cruising on the freeway it was ok...but just the accrealation....anyone have any ideas..its my daily driver and i need to fix her...
You will lose oil without the dipstick/dipstick tube in the oil pan, especially with it being that short. I would not drive it until it is fixed properly.
And yes, the studdering is from the plug wires. It's never good to run around with two burned wires.
And yes, the studdering is from the plug wires. It's never good to run around with two burned wires.
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well i fixed up the two wires that were burned with eletrical tape......i have heard that they can still spark even with the tape around them....but regardless i but some 8.5 MSD Wires today and hopefully that will stop the shaking.....so thats what u think it was from the wires....and its not being driven since i felt the shaking....shes sitting in my driveway 
just get violent and pull whats left of the dipstick tube out of the block.....buy a new one from the dealer and put it in. and re-route your plug wires so they dont burn again...might invest in some type of heat protection for those plugs wires.
what headers are they btw?
what headers are they btw?
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they are Jet Hot LoNG TUBES...abd today i got the new dipstick peice and MSD 8.5 wires...hopefully it solves the problem.....does it sound like a problem related to the Spark plug wires
alright, you shouldn't have any problems like i had w/ my pacesetter shorties (very first versions)...i had to "re-route" the dipstick tube to clear the headers......and if u have burnt plug wires, then the stumbling problem is definately related to that.
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the problem now i have is i can not get the dipstick out...i jsut spent 2 hours trying to get it out and its still stuck in their..i took off the starter, and got some needle nose plires and was puliling but it didnt come out...is there any other methond or anything???
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Originally Posted by The LT1 That Could
pull the pan and hammer it out 
got me on that one man, not sure how stong that tube is....might just end up bending it.
got me on that one man, not sure how stong that tube is....might just end up bending it.
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I had a friend who had a similar problem with his Mitsubishi 300gt... now, i know that the engine setup is a bit different... but get this, after we replaced the oil pan gasket and had it all bolted up, the damn dipstick would not come out. I suppose it could be wedged in there between the oil pan and something else. That might just be your best bet, im not sure how easily your oil pan comes out as well.. the only domestic car i own is an 81 Pontiac Turbo Trans Am... so... good luck!
Originally Posted by whilte93lt1
i can get teh pliers around it and get a ggod grip on it but it seems like its ******* stuck in there...do u think maybe there is Seom JB Weld or somethign around it.....im having a buddy of mine come over tonight and try and help me he has smaller fingers and hands than me
im not sure how those tubes are held in...i thought they just slipped in and were supposed to be snug, but they maybe a flange on the back end holding it into the block/oilpan.