Date:         Wed, 8 Oct 2003 07:09:42 -0700
Reply-To:     Jeffrey Earl <jefferrata@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jeffrey Earl <jefferrata@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Modified oil dipstick
Comments: cc: gull@GULL.US, gilles.turmel@SYMPATICO.CA
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On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Gilles H Turmel wrote:

> Hi List,
> I'm looking for a source where I can get a modified
oil dipstick that
> would enable me to measure the oil level through the
license plate of
an
> I4 50 deg conversion.
> Best regards.

David Brodbeck wrote: Your diesel oil pan doesn't
already have a stick?


I write: You should note that, IIRC, the earlier ('82)
diesels used a dipstick which was integrated into the
oil fill tube, which indeed attaches to the rear of
the oil pan. The stick extended down thru the tube and
into the oil pan to measure the level, and for
inspection was withdrawn thru the oil fill cap.

Later diesels, such as my '83, instead utilized the
same orifice on the engine block for the dipstick tube
as did the inline-4 gasoline engines, but of course
the tube then arced upward and rearward to a point
near the license-plate door. Perhaps such a dipstick
tube arrangement could be used on your I4 gasoline
setup.

Good luck.


"OK, I'll leave it at that since I've already gone on
for far too long about something I don't know a whole
lot about ..."

Jeffrey Earl
1983 diesel Westfalia "Vanasazi"


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