Also having a hard time finding doghouse seal
some jackals thought tape was an idea.....

 

Duct Tape and Bailing Wire is always an Idea


Anyway try LMC Truck. you may need to call and ask them.

 

if you can find parts that are not diesel specific, many econoline vans are still in junkyards in the southwest. Whenever I go to my local pick-u-part, I pick up spare van parts like doghouse seal, trim pieces, etc. But if you are looking for the diesel van stuff, it's really few and far between. I've been building up my inventory of van part stuff. I've had 3 requests for van vacuum pump brackets in the last year, so I was looking for a foundry (in the US) that can do a run of them for me. But the quotes that came back were astronomical. I'll keep building up my inventory of stuff so us Van IDI guys are not left out to dry.

Are you looking for a tranny dipstick tube or a crankcase oil tube? As for my tranny tube, when I installed my hypermax van turbo, their tranny tube design didn't work, so I used some high strength heater-style hose connected to the bottom half of my standard C6 tranny tube (that I cut down to about a foot in length. The rubber hose reaches up to the front of the engine bay, probably around 4 ft long. For the last 5 years, it's worked fine.

 

I do a small bit of Wax loss investment casting.... Genscripter you do 3D printing as I do so you know you can get Wax filament to print parts ... I know many folks that do this... but as you say cost may be prohibitive

my 3D printing is all FDM

you could Print the seal using TPU it's really a no brainer...... just time consuming

 

Tranny dipstick and tube
I got lied to a pick n pull here in Washington and drove two hours...
******s
one of the other yards gave me numbers to yards in Idaho and Utah and they wouldn't part with just the dipstick and tube

 

recommendations on trans cooler?
I will be towing a 7k trailer that has its own electronic brakes

 

You can find the u-haul replacement cooler on ebay. the u-haul IDI van's of the 80's used to have the aux cooler that was slightly bigger than the standard e350.

 

Still need doughouse seal, and dipstick and tube

Have seen people saying 4R100 is interchangeable

As you can see here
My dipstick is 53 1/2 inches from tip to where the cap rests against end of the tube

my application is 91 e350 7.3 idi e4od 2wd to be specific if that matters

 

I should really make a line of replacement IDI Van dipsticks and tubes for the crankcase and trans. It's easy to find the truck tubes, but the van ones are slowly disappearing.

In the meantime, if I were you, I would call a bunch of these junkyards (in the image below), and see if you can get the van tube and dipstick. If they are sure it came from a C6 and an econoline, it should work for you.


(come to think of it, did I ask if you had the C6 or the E4OD?)

 

Yes you should
every trans rebuilder ive called had 0 leads

 

I have E4OD

 

That's kind of the problem. I wouldn't rely on a tranny shop to handle that search. I would just work with the junkyards directly. I've gotten a lot of rare transmission parts by using car-part.com and just getting the yard to pull the part and mail it to me. The key is searching for 84-91 econoline stuff. They have a filter for C6 or E4OD. Once you can narrow it, especially for a diesel van (which usually you can find it), then it's somewhat possible.

Like this one... it's for a E4OD with a 460, but maybe the dipstick tube and dipsticks for the trans are the same.

1993
Transmission Assembly
Ford E350 Van AT, E4OD transmission, 8-460 (7.5L),7.5L,AUTO TRANS,RWD,rebuild on 2017-0MI

191012 $850 Tri County Auto Dismantlers USA-CA(Santa-Paula) Request_Quote 805-647-8440 / 877-667-2787 Request_Insurance_Quote

or

1990
Transmission Assembly
Ford E150 Van 90 E150,E40D*VAN 4.9L-MATCH*> NICE TESTED[53K-SDO][fresh-TORQ] 57,000 A R1165 $699.34 M & M Imports - Will Call Only - No Shipping USA-CA(Fontana) Request_Quote 909-428-1111 Request_Insurance_Quote

Another possible candidate:

1990
Transmission Assembly
Ford Van E4OD, 8-460 (7.5L)-90 E250 TRANS

42430 $750 Shamrock Auto Salvage USA-CA(Ridgecrest) Request_Quote 760-446-5865 Request_Insurance_Quote

Cool....I found a diesel one!

1990
Transmission Assembly
Ford E350 Van AT, E4OD transmission, 8-445 (7.3L, diesel) OFF AND READY - ON THE SHELF! *90 DAY WARRANTY!!-302871

90E350 $925 ODR Auto Wrecking USA-AZ(Phoenix) Request_Quote 602-272-4690 Request_Insurance_Quote

I don't know. I just skimmed a dozen or so. The good thing is, there are still plenty of E4OD's out there, you just need to convince the yard to give you the dipstick and tube.

 

Thanks for the tips and your time
the ones i did call didnt yield me anything
so after advice from a trans rebuilder i purchased:
2002 7.3 PS 2wd 4R100 dipstick from Ford Parts for 45$
itll be here friday
Ill post pics with my old dipstick to show how alike they are
so that anyone else might need to know while be able to see
might even make another thread

 

All you really need is the bottom part of the dipstick that connects into the tranny. THe rest can be made with high-strength hoses. I replaced my dipstick with that kind of set up and I've been driving it for a half decade without issues. The hard part will be figuring out the length without a tube to compare it. Maybe if you drain your fluid, and fill it back up with the proper quantity, then dip the stick and then adjust the length of the tube as necessary, that could work. But It's kind of a pain because to properly check the fluids requires running the engine.

 

Found a dipstick for 30$ on ebay that has matching part # and looks the same from pictures

If if i dont find a solid tube
ill measure what i cut above the kink
the dipstick can pass the kink if you shove hard enough
but i assume thats how the previous dipaticks cap got broken