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Old Jan 28, 2012 | 05:53 PM
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Help it's a 98 ex and I don't really wanna have the oil pan dropped
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Old Jan 28, 2012 | 05:56 PM
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Try using a magnet or something that will fit into the dipstick hole
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I used a shop vac
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Old Jan 29, 2012 | 07:08 AM
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Tried a magnet, maybe it wasn't a good enough one though
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Old Jan 29, 2012 | 07:10 AM
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Don't know how or what magnet you tried, but this might work. They are cheap and I'm
sure you can find one skinny enough to stick down into the tube:

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Old Jan 29, 2012 | 01:10 PM
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Default Re: Oil dipstick broke off in tube
Did it break at the handle, can you see the stick with a flash light or did it break far down?
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Old Jan 29, 2012 | 08:51 PM
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Default Re: Oil dipstick broke off in tube
Do what MCVTEC said, or get the machine from "honey i shrunk the kids" and find that bitch your self
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You could also just pull out the dipstick tube from the block. I don't know why I didn't think of that before
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Old Jan 29, 2012 | 09:22 PM
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Default Re: Oil dipstick broke off in tube
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You could also just pull out the dipstick tube from the block. I don't know why I didn't think of that before



I came in to say that.

When you remove it, hopeufully, you can just grab the end, pull it out, and replce the dip stick. if not, you may have to replace it and the tube.
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Old Jan 30, 2012 | 09:32 AM
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Default Re: Oil dipstick broke off in tube
I'm not very mechanically inclined so I was hoping for something easy, lol
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Old Jan 30, 2012 | 11:00 AM
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Lol it is easy. Just take a flat head and hammer and there's a lip on the tube where it meets the block you can use that to tap it out
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Old Jan 30, 2012 | 01:45 PM
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Default Re: Oil dipstick broke off in tube
It just pops right out, although, if I remember correctly there might be a bolt?

Can't quite remember from when I did my T belt. But, it's easy. Don't really need much skill
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Lol forgot this was a single cam and not a B series
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Lol forgot this was a single cam and not a B series
Hahaha.


Yea, I am not totaly sure about the bolt, but it will be right by the end of the tube, if you're looking it would be hard to miss.
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I did it awhile ago on a sohc but idr for sure I believe its just locked on with a latch and when you undo that it could be pulled out
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I did it awhile ago on a sohc but idr for sure I believe its just locked on with a latch and when you undo that it could be pulled out
Maybe.



I don't remember.
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Me either for sure
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