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| | | | Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 255 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 255 | So.... the dipstick tube on my 1959 235 has picked up some dents along the way and its difficult as heck to get the dipstick in and out of the tube. I've heard that 3/8 brakeline makes a good replacement tube and that there should be about 6" of tube above the block (I'll replicate mine exactly).
To the question: Is the tube fixed to the block somehow? Or is it just pressed in? I've taken vise-grips and dynamite to the darn thing and just can't get it to loosen up. Any advice?
Thx - Bruce
1950 3800 | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 | They're just pressed in and bottom out on a land at the bottom
of the hole. The hole is just a bit smaller than the tube OD.
DG
Denny G
Sandwich, IL
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 5,337 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 5,337 | Put a 5/16" bolt down the top of the tube so the Vice-Grips do not crush the tube. Twist and pull.
See the USA in your vintage Chevrolet! My Blog | | | | | Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,001 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,001 | removed the dents in place. simply use a suitable diameter Phillips head screw driver and slowly hammer out the dents from the inside. By pounding the screw driver into the dipstick tube (in case you had to ask). This works because the tube is straight. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 | Good idea Dave, should work just fine if all that's
wrong is the time is bent or dented.
DG
Denny G
Sandwich, IL
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 255 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 255 | good thinking Dave. I'd been scrounging around my garage looking for a suitable steel rod to do just that and couldn't find anything. I probably had a screwdriver in my pocket all along. Doh! | | |
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