Moving to the other side of the
engine, the oil dip-stick was next on the list. This one is made by
Lokar
and is a bit different than your stock ones. Lokar makes several
different styles of sticks and depending on your preference, you can
have one with or without a tube that fits into your engine block. The
one I choose has a braided steel hose for a tube which is flexible to
fit many applications.
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If you look down between the headers,
you'll see a small hole which is where the dip-stick goes. There's not
much room between the side of the block and dip-stick hole.
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Here is the dip-stick tube. It has a
bracket on the top to secure it to where ever it's handy, like one of the
header bolts. In my case, I'll be using the threaded hole in the side of
the head (see above picture). Somehow I knew that this wouldn't be easy
after seeing how close the hole was in the engine block and I was right. The size of the hole in the block is 3/8" diameter
and the size of the new tube end is 7/16". I thought about turning down
the tube end only but that would leave me with another problem. Notice the
size difference between the tube end (the part that goes into the block)
and the hex-nut above it.
Yep....you guessed it. The hex-nut hits the block even if I turned down
the tube end. Now this means I have two choices. The first would be to send it
back. The second would be to make some kind of an adapter to make this
one work. After looking at it for a few minutes, I decided to make an
adapter.
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Here is what I came up with, the small
end of the adapter will go into the block and the other end will except the dip-stick
tube assembly. Now the reason this is so long is because in order to
slide this adapter in, I have to utilize the room in the freeze plug
area. The recess in the freeze plug will be used for the large end on
the tube which is where the hex-nut will be going. I may have to bend
the adapter a small amount to have everything fit correctly. Also the
added length will enable the bracket to bolt to the head.
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