[elky] Re: Dipstick

  • From: John Christensen <johncgg@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:24:16 -0500

Now that's using your dipstick!

JC

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Mary McCarthy <printces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> and here i thought you were looking for me....
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> I'll see if I can find 'building small block chevy' and get back to you.
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> Mary
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>  I've lost the Hot Rodding Manual!
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>> If I had the manual surely there would have been at least a page
>> devoted to "Items you need when building a Small Block Chevy from a
>> bare block" (at which point I would have reconsidered building from a
>> bare block, the list is LONG.)
>>
>> When I built my 406 I bought a chrome dipstick&  tube from the local
>> parts store.  At various times said dipstick has come in contact with
>> the crankshaft (!).  Until just moments ago this was a mystery to me,
>> until I discovered a part known as the "lower dipstick tube"
>> (GM3951600).  Having never known about this part I certainly never
>> installed one...
>>
>> The question I have: can this lower dipstick tube be installed from
>> the top?  Some say it can, that you install this lower tube then
>> install the upper tube.
>>
>> Anyone know?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Chris
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