Dipstick question
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Dipstick question
Lately I've noticed my dipstick is getting much harder to put back into the tube, it requires a lot of force and two hands. I had never noticed this before, but I was looking under the hood of a couple other 7.3 trucks and noticed the orientation of the dipstick is opposite of mine, you can read "Engine Oil" from the passanger side on my truck, whereas you read it on the driver's side on the others. The stick will not go into the tube on my truck so that it matches theirs, and I've noticed slightly varied readings on either side of the stick, the "Operating range" side with the writing always reads slightly different than the other side.
So do I have an issue here?
So do I have an issue here?
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I had the same problem. The dipstick tube bracket was slightly bent. Probably from laying on top of the engine. I just pushed rearward, toward frewall, on the dipstick tube about an inch or so. Now the dipstick glides in and out. Give that a try. Has helped a couple of others.
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I had the same problem. The dipstick tube bracket was slightly bent. Probably from laying on top of the engine. I just pushed rearward, toward frewall, on the dipstick tube about an inch or so. Now the dipstick glides in and out. Give that a try. Has helped a couple of others.
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Thanks to PaysonPSD it will now glide effortlessly in either direction, all it needed was a very minor push. I'm betting it got a little bent when I installed the new up-pipes and turbo pedestal. 
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i think the tube stops about an inch inside the pan. Oncethe dipstick enters the pan, its on its own, as to giving the measured amount.
I dontthink the tube itself can be installed into the jam nut on the pan, any other way.
I dontthink the tube itself can be installed into the jam nut on the pan, any other way.
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