On May 31, 2006, at 11:48 AM, oldsmobile-digest wrote:
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 11:09:31 -0400
From: "Zito, James A \(GE Infra, Energy\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE:Cascading Mightaswells, Part the Third
I'm waiting on a batch of parts from Year One and eVilBay. By the
way, did you know it's incredibly easy to break the oil
dipstick tube when attempting to tweak it wound new headers? Ask me
how I know. :(
Kevin I hope you didn't pay 3-10x too much for the new one....they
are still available direct from GM for about $3-4.
Not with shipping they're not. You have to buy 3 or 4 of them to make
the shipping worth it. I still considered doing so, and probably
should have. Instead, I bought a chrome one off of eVil. Not because
it was chrome, mind you, but I was mesmerized by the billet handle. I
just put it in yesterday (Thursday) and would like to say: "use the
factory tube." I had to work over the aftermarket piece. The
uppermost of the two bulges that make the tube a press fit was too
big by at least .010. It took a fair amount of work with the vise and
file to get it to where the blamed thing would even go in, much less
somewhat easily, to be retained by sealer, as Chris Witt has
suggested. What I should have done was gotten a factory tube, and
used the pretty billet dipstick with it. I probably could have
absconded with one from one of the spare engines that my dad has; the
one from the engine that the oil pan I'm now using would have been
ideal, most likely...
FWIW, the aftermarket piece seems to be slightly heavier tubing than
the factory bit.
On digest mode, so I'm a little slow...
Kevin Wright
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Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX http://
www.wankel.net/~krwright/cars/olds/70Olds.html
'71 Cutlass S for sale, less engine and trans: http://www.wankel.net/
~krwright/cars/olds/71_cutlass.html
Snoopy: 1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass S Sports Coupe - It wants to be a
W-31! And have EFI, 4-wheel discs, a 6-speed, a turbo or two... :)
...and a '71 Holiday Coupe less engine/transmission for sale - it'll
be parts if someone doesn't buy it!
