I have a Greddy kit on my GSR, my question is what can I do bout the oil dip stick? The little rubber part that seals it keeps melting. Thank you.

 

trim it

 

 

Trimming it isnt gonna do anything, it's still gonna melt and won't seal. Thanks anyways.

 

have you tried to push the oil dip stick tube some. Bend it a little bit?

 

Buy a new dipstick and bend the metal neck piece so that nothing is touching the turbo manifold or anything else.

 

HAhahaha Same with me ... u can do two things.

1. Get a new one every 6 months

OR

2. go to http://www.jcwhitney.com and get this, one guy uses it from here and says no more melting .. .let me know.

http://www.jcwhitney.com/product.jht...D=410609&BQ=sc

- Fred

 

Wrap it with a small amount of header wrap. Works perfectly and you don't have to wait for it to cool before you grab it. Good luck.

-Ryan

 

Maybe in your situation that is the case, but w/ mine, all I did was trim/bend and I have no melting or fitment issues anymore.

Gl though.

 

Thanks FredoSP, im gonna check it out. As for the suggestion to trim and bend doesn't help with the piece that melts which is the green rubber that seals the hole where the dip stick goes (no seal...oil spits out and gets on hot engine and car starts smoking), but thanks anyways.... .

 

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I have the same problem.....and this happened half way on the drive down to school. I had to drive 40 mph for 100 miles...

 

well the exact same thing happened to my friend with a greddy kit. everytime he boosted his car would smoke like crazy.... he wraped some heater wrap around it and now it works fine.

 

I bought the STR dipstick, its metal, and the rubber grommets are in the tube, i had a greddy kit as well-

 

any problems of the orings potentially melting themselves to the dip stick tube?

 

No, but i had slid a piece of the heatwrap over my oil tube-

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by XratedSi &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">No, but i had slid a piece of the heatwrap over my oil tube-</TD></TR></TABLE>

what type of heat wrap was this? was it regular exhuast heat wrap?