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General Information => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: mtnbob on October 24, 2010, 02:44:44 pm

Title: How do you remove a MKII dipstick?
Post by: mtnbob on October 24, 2010, 02:44:44 pm

Trying to strip my block down before I take it to the machine shop, and I can't figure out how to remove the dipstick. I thought they were just pressed in, with a gasket keeping it from leaking, but this one is being stubborn. Is their a way to do it without resorting to brute force ::)
Thanks
Robert

Title: Re: How do you remove a MKII dipstick?
Post by: rallydiesel on October 24, 2010, 02:54:33 pm

It is pressed in. Just put a block of wood on the end and tap it out with a hammer.

Title: Re: How do you remove a MKII dipstick?
Post by: Smokey Eddy on October 24, 2010, 10:12:45 pm

Mine is bolted to the bottom of the injection bump but otherwise the same. Pull really really hard on it and it will come out.

Title: Re: How do you remove a MKII dipstick?
Post by: mtnbob on October 25, 2010, 03:26:32 pm

That is how my past ones have been, for some reason this one seems to be in pretty tight :o

Title: Re: How do you remove a MKII dipstick?
Post by: rallydiesel on October 25, 2010, 03:49:03 pm

Maybe the previous owner thought JB weld would make a good sealant  :-[.

Title: Re: How do you remove a MKII dipstick?
Post by: mtnbob on October 25, 2010, 11:11:39 pm

My thoughts exactly :o

Title: Re: How do you remove a MKII dipstick?
Post by: R.O.R-2.0 on October 26, 2010, 06:56:31 am

im thinking hes been talking about the tube the whole time..

Title: Re: How do you remove a MKII dipstick?
Post by: mtnbob on October 26, 2010, 04:26:10 pm

Yes LOL the dipstick tube! Sorry for the error. ;D

Title: Re: How do you remove a MKII dipstick?
Post by: Smokey Eddy on October 27, 2010, 01:04:25 am

I knew what you meant :P

Title: Re: How do you remove a MKII dipstick?
Post by: theman53 on October 27, 2010, 04:11:26 am

Mine was in pretty good. It seemed I had to pull and almost straighten it the first little bit and then twist to get it out. Mine doesn't leak around the base though so I think it is a good thing.

Title: Re: How do you remove a MKII dipstick?
Post by: truckinwagen on October 27, 2010, 01:15:30 pm

I used a drift from inside the block to push it out.

-Owen

Title: Re: How do you remove a MKII dipstick?
Post by: RajendirSharma on December 07, 2010, 09:53:07 pm

I used a washer that fitted the bore of the dipstick tube from underneath (from the oil pan side) and pushed it up by hammering via a wooden stick.  It is very difficult to get a dip stick tube.  I have a new one that costed about $70.  No junk yard had one.  I have three of those tubes now; short one (block with 11mm headbolt), gas engine one, and a new one for 1985 block that accept 12mm bolt.   Let me know if you wish to buy any of those.  Send me an e-mail at [email protected].

Title: Re: How do you remove a MKII dipstick?
Post by: R.O.R-2.0 on December 08, 2010, 10:08:15 am

Quote from: libbybapa on December 07, 2010, 11:18:19 pm

I've made custom dipstick tubes from appropriately sized steel brake line. 

Me too!

my 1.5 kept blowing the stock dip stick out of the block.. so i used a chunk of brake line, and like you, made my own. but i made it so that the dip stick actually threads onto the end of the tube..