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Dipstick Mystery

posted by  Don Foster on  Sat Aug 10 07:38 CST 2002
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Years ago I worked on an International Harvester that had the dipstick tube snapped off. I didn't want to drop the pan to drive out the stub.

I ran a tap into the stub, threading it inside. Then I ran a bolt into the threaded stub, but ran the bolt through an inverted socket. When the bolt fetched up tight, I kept on tightening -- which effectively drew the stub outta the block.

This was in late '60s, so the memory's fading a bit...... But I think as I ran the tap into the stub, I used a shop vac nozzle to suck up as many chips as possible to keep them from falling into the pan.
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Don Foster (near Cape Cod, MA)






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