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checking oil today and my dipstick snapped! luckily it was part way out at the time and it had snapped at the top, rather than being stuck in...
I'm aralditing it together at the moment but I doubt that is going to hold. So I need to order a new one.
Doing a search on tvrgear brings back the following:
Category:
Cerbera - OLIVE (DIPSTICK) TVR Official Part
Category - Engine
£1.50 GBP
Category:
Cerbera - ADAPTOR (DIPSTICK) TVR Official Part
Category - Engine
£14.81 GBP
What the hell have olives got to do with anything? I could just order them both, but I'm not confident that either of them is the actual dipstick.
Can I drive without the dipstick in or is it going to spray oil around my engine bay? Or should I just shove it in anyway and just makes sure I can get it out with some needlenose pliers.
Why do these things always happen on a Sunday when everywhere is closed?
I'm aralditing it together at the moment but I doubt that is going to hold. So I need to order a new one.
Doing a search on tvrgear brings back the following:
Category:
Cerbera - OLIVE (DIPSTICK) TVR Official Part
Category - Engine
£1.50 GBP
Category:
Cerbera - ADAPTOR (DIPSTICK) TVR Official Part
Category - Engine
£14.81 GBP
What the hell have olives got to do with anything? I could just order them both, but I'm not confident that either of them is the actual dipstick.
Can I drive without the dipstick in or is it going to spray oil around my engine bay? Or should I just shove it in anyway and just makes sure I can get it out with some needlenose pliers.
Why do these things always happen on a Sunday when everywhere is closed?
I suspect the 'olive' is the washer thingy that goes on the dipstick near the handle so that it stays in the tube....may be wrong but an 'olive' is used to seal unions on water pipes....my guess is the second bit is the right bit....how bout putting the top part of your dipstick in and taping it in place...this should stop oil...(which id doubt would find its way up such a long thin tube)..from coming out till you have the replacement...
satman said:
how bout putting the top part of your dipstick in and taping it in place
That's the current plan, although the old man is pottering over in his MG with a couple he had laying about the place, so we'll try those to see if they fit before I try the gaffa tape option.
Regarding the tvrgear site, the second one is the list calls it an adaptor? I'd just call it a dipstick myself, if that is what it actually was...
I'll call topcats tomorrow.
Current solution, my dad has a golf dipstick in his rover V8, I have a rover V8 dipstick in my cerb and a broken cerb dipstick in the boot along with some needlenose pliers, should I need to check the oil.
Now, just to find out what the lead time is on a new dipstick, I'll be optimistic and guess 4 months
Now, just to find out what the lead time is on a new dipstick, I'll be optimistic and guess 4 months
Anybody know where I can get a dipstick from
TVR want £100 as apparently I need to adapt it to a 4.5 level indicator
Now, I refuse to order 4 different parts, totalling £100 to replace a small stick of metal. I'd rather make one myself, thanks very much...
... Well, what I'd rather do is get hold of a 4.2 dipstick but douglas valley don't have one, anywhere else I can try?
TVR want £100 as apparently I need to adapt it to a 4.5 level indicator
Now, I refuse to order 4 different parts, totalling £100 to replace a small stick of metal. I'd rather make one myself, thanks very much... ... Well, what I'd rather do is get hold of a 4.2 dipstick but douglas valley don't have one, anywhere else I can try?
Give these a ring - www.bellhillgarage.co.uk/
Beaten to it.
>> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Monday 1st March 13:59
Beaten to it.
>> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Monday 1st March 13:59
no joy at either breaker.
I suppose I could take some comfort in the fact that this seems to be a common problem with the 4.2 dipstick and not just me being a gumbi monkey handed gorilla.
Stay tuned for the definitive "How to fix your broken 4.2 dipstick for less than the price of a 2 bed in Harlow" guide.
I suppose I could take some comfort in the fact that this seems to be a common problem with the 4.2 dipstick and not just me being a gumbi monkey handed gorilla.
Stay tuned for the definitive "How to fix your broken 4.2 dipstick for less than the price of a 2 bed in Harlow" guide.
FourWheelDrift said:
1) Do you drive past any garages that may have a welder? If so ask them if they can weld it back together for you.
1) I have a father who has a welding kit in the garage, but the handle has a brass coating/section, which we had problems welding to. A proper go is on the cards after todays ringing round though.
2) I have duct tape, a couple of air filters, a battery and a carboard box. Enough to replenish the oxygen in an Apollo craft travelling 30000mph, 200 miles in the sky, but not something as complex as the common dipstick.
Current thoughts are to drill a couple of small holes in the olive/cap/cover/whatever you want to call it, that will run either side of the dipstick. Weld a couple of thin strips of metal to the top of the dipstick (small enough to still get in the hole) Slide the cap and handle over and weld the two strips to the handle.
Bobs your uncle, fannys your aunt, brass is bypassed and dipstick is rock solid.
Pictures are difficult at the moment, but it has broken where the handle joins the dipstick, flush with the inside of the olive/cap/cover/whatever you want to call it.
Bobs your uncle, fannys your aunt, brass is bypassed and dipstick is rock solid.
Pictures are difficult at the moment, but it has broken where the handle joins the dipstick, flush with the inside of the olive/cap/cover/whatever you want to call it.
trooper1212 said:
1) I have a father who has a welding kit in the garage, but the handle has a brass coating/section, which we had problems welding to. A proper go is on the cards after todays ringing round though.
2) I have duct tape, a couple of air filters, a battery and a carboard box. Enough to replenish the oxygen in an Apollo craft travelling 30000mph, 200 miles in the sky, but not something as complex as the common dipstick.
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