On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 19:30:10 -0500, Mike Romain
<romainm@sympatico.ca> shared the following:

>I was implying that the missing piece of the dipstick tube with the
>bump/depth stop on it might be down in the oil pan.
>
>Breaking the tube off could be an off road related thing. I have had
>sticks come up and pop my fan belt off, so they can hit hard.
>
>Mike

Ouch! I hadn't even considered the possibility that my dipstick tube
could have broken off and be down in there. I'll have to look very
closely at the end of it and see if it looks like it's a machined end
or if it looks like it broke there.

>
>travis wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 18:04:31 -0500, Mike Romain
>> <romainm@sympatico.ca> shared the following:
>>
>> >You are the guy wondering what that bang bang noise is when the oil is
>> >still somewhat thick, right???
>> >
>> >I wonder what a 4" chunk of steel pipe sounds like when the crank is
>> >beating it around?
>>
>> I don't know. The first time I heard the sound was just after getting
>> off of the trails, so the oil was far from being thick. I'd been
>> offroading for about an hour and before that had driven about 20 miles
>> to get to the trails.
>>
>> >
>> >Mike
>> >86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
>> >88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
>> >
>> >travis wrote:
>> >>
>> >> OK, this will sound like a stupid question but I just went to check my
>> >> oil level. I pulled on the dipstick and the whole dipstick *and* the
>> >> tube it goes into came right out. I looked at the tube and don't see
>> >> anything that looks like would keep it in place. When I reinserted
>> >> the tube, it goes waaaaay down inside of the hole, like there's
>> >> nothing to keep it in about the position it needs to be in. So now
>> >> since I don't know how deep the tube goes in the hole, any dipstick
>> >> reading is meaningless. Anybody ever had this happen to them? It's a
>> >> 304. Thank you.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Travis
>> >> http://jeepadventures.dyndns.org/jeep.html
>> >> Happy trails!!!
>> >> :wq!
>>
>> --
>> Travis
>> http://jeepadventures.dyndns.org/jeep.html
>> Happy trails!!!
>> :wq!


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Travis
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Happy trails!!!
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On or about Mon, 1 Dec 2003, travis of travist34removethis@hotmail.com wrote:

> On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 13:40:57 -0500, travis
> <travist34removethis@hotmail.com> shared the following:
>
> >OK, this will sound like a stupid question but I just went to check my
> >oil level. I pulled on the dipstick and the whole dipstick *and* the
> >tube it goes into came right out. I looked at the tube and don't see
> >anything that looks like would keep it in place. When I reinserted
> >the tube, it goes waaaaay down inside of the hole, like there's
> >nothing to keep it in about the position it needs to be in. So now
> >since I don't know how deep the tube goes in the hole, any dipstick
> >reading is meaningless. Anybody ever had this happen to them? It's a
> >304. Thank you.
>
> I guess what I need is the exact measurement of how many inches the
> dipstick tube protrudes out of the block so that I can fashion
> something to hold my dipstick tube in the right place. Thanks so much
> to anyone who could provide me with this measurement.

The same thing happened to my 258, um, about a decade and a half ago, it
just came out of the block along with the dipstick. The dipstick tube was
then an off-the-shelf replacement part that I gently tapped back into
place with a hammer and a block of wood. You local parts jobber should be
able to order one for you. IIRC the part was swedged to give it the
proper height when set.

 

On or about Mon, 1 Dec 2003, travis of travist34removethis@hotmail.com wrote:

> On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 13:40:57 -0500, travis
> <travist34removethis@hotmail.com> shared the following:
>
> >OK, this will sound like a stupid question but I just went to check my
> >oil level. I pulled on the dipstick and the whole dipstick *and* the
> >tube it goes into came right out. I looked at the tube and don't see
> >anything that looks like would keep it in place. When I reinserted
> >the tube, it goes waaaaay down inside of the hole, like there's
> >nothing to keep it in about the position it needs to be in. So now
> >since I don't know how deep the tube goes in the hole, any dipstick
> >reading is meaningless. Anybody ever had this happen to them? It's a
> >304. Thank you.
>
> I guess what I need is the exact measurement of how many inches the
> dipstick tube protrudes out of the block so that I can fashion
> something to hold my dipstick tube in the right place. Thanks so much
> to anyone who could provide me with this measurement.

The same thing happened to my 258, um, about a decade and a half ago, it
just came out of the block along with the dipstick. The dipstick tube was
then an off-the-shelf replacement part that I gently tapped back into
place with a hammer and a block of wood. You local parts jobber should be
able to order one for you. IIRC the part was swedged to give it the
proper height when set.

 

On or about Mon, 1 Dec 2003, travis of travist34removethis@hotmail.com wrote:

> On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 13:40:57 -0500, travis
> <travist34removethis@hotmail.com> shared the following:
>
> >OK, this will sound like a stupid question but I just went to check my
> >oil level. I pulled on the dipstick and the whole dipstick *and* the
> >tube it goes into came right out. I looked at the tube and don't see
> >anything that looks like would keep it in place. When I reinserted
> >the tube, it goes waaaaay down inside of the hole, like there's
> >nothing to keep it in about the position it needs to be in. So now
> >since I don't know how deep the tube goes in the hole, any dipstick
> >reading is meaningless. Anybody ever had this happen to them? It's a
> >304. Thank you.
>
> I guess what I need is the exact measurement of how many inches the
> dipstick tube protrudes out of the block so that I can fashion
> something to hold my dipstick tube in the right place. Thanks so much
> to anyone who could provide me with this measurement.

The same thing happened to my 258, um, about a decade and a half ago, it
just came out of the block along with the dipstick. The dipstick tube was
then an off-the-shelf replacement part that I gently tapped back into
place with a hammer and a block of wood. You local parts jobber should be
able to order one for you. IIRC the part was swedged to give it the
proper height when set.