First Generation Firebird-L Mailing List ......................................................................... I posted about my dipstick appearing broken a month or so ago and got some feedback and photos of unbroken ones. I bought a new one stuck it in the engine. In the meantime I've had the car up on jack-stands for various things (all new exhaust, redo the rear brakes, rear anti-sway bar, motor mounts) and today was the first time I've started the engine in at least a month. It sounded like it had a bad lifter and oil started coming out of the dipstick tube !!! I started looking for what was making all the noise hoping to find something on the outside of the engine rubbing on something. Kept coming back to the dipstick tube to wipe off the oil dribbling out and finally I pulled the dipstick out to see if oil would keep coming out. The noise stopped!! Oil stopped too. Put the dipstick back in and the horrible noise returned. Pulled it back out and looked at the end. There was just the barest of what might be a rub mark on the very tip. So I put the old dipstick with the end broken off back in. The inner tube must be out of position or broken allowing it to hit. The pulsing of the hits seems to have turned the dipstick and tube into a little pump! At least the new exhaust wasn't leaking. Now if I could only get the air out of the brakes..... Can't get them bled. Has anyone ever "reverse" bled brakes? I see a gadget on eBay that says you can reverse bleed brakes with it by pumping the fluid from the bleeder valve back to the Master C. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions to Firebird-L: <[email protected]> Unsubscribe from Firebird-L: <[email protected]> Help: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/firebird/Firebird-L.html>
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