wjburken
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I think he needs a mug!Do you need a hug!?
Oil dipstick tube broken at block
- Thread starter silky28
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Well, alrighty then! 
George B
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That sucks and is how it foes for me too sometimes. Usually it happens when Mrs GeorgeB is in a fantastic mood and wants nothing more than me working on a truck....
Do you need a hug!?
I mean if you are offering...then no I will ask the wife.
alpha_omega
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Geewiz! Sounds like the debacle I got myself into recently. I tell you guys “if I didn’t have $*** for luck I wouldn’t have any at all”.
alpha_omega
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Here is a photo of how I recently (as in days ago) solved the very same issue.
(x1) Long hex head lag bolt.
-screw that baby in straight until it bites, give er’ one more 1/4 turn and then attach a slide hammer with whichever attachment you want to use. One or two good draws with the hammer and your broken tube will be free of the block.
(x1) Long hex head lag bolt.
-screw that baby in straight until it bites, give er’ one more 1/4 turn and then attach a slide hammer with whichever attachment you want to use. One or two good draws with the hammer and your broken tube will be free of the block.
alpha_omega
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Don’t forget to drain your oil, after you’re all done. It wouldn’t hurt to run a little clean oil through it while the plug is removed and/or “punch the bore” (i.e. clean the bottom of the oil pan with a couple long q-tips) just to make sure you get any loose debris removed.
So I am going to try 2 methods:
1) put 2 nuts and a washer on a 1/4 bolt and rice bolt into hole. Put washer and nut flat against hole and turn second but. Hoping the double washer method will pull the bolt out with the tube.
2) drive 1/4” bolt into hole. From below tap the head of the bolt with pry-bar and hammer...and if that doesn’t work I will try the air-chisel.
1) put 2 nuts and a washer on a 1/4 bolt and rice bolt into hole. Put washer and nut flat against hole and turn second but. Hoping the double washer method will pull the bolt out with the tube.
2) drive 1/4” bolt into hole. From below tap the head of the bolt with pry-bar and hammer...and if that doesn’t work I will try the air-chisel.
Didn’t work out...nothing will even budge it. I got a 1/4 lag in there, heated the hole and that hit it with a prybar and hammer...nothing. Hit it with the air chisel...nothing.
Then the lag bolt snapped inside the hole. So, looks like I will be going without a dipstick!
Then the lag bolt snapped inside the hole. So, looks like I will be going without a dipstick!
