Quality Dipstick
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Why? Did you break it? 
If so, then you would may be the first. Ever.
Does it not tell you the proper level?
I cannot imagine anyone making an aftermarket dipstick specifically for the V10.
If so, then you would may be the first. Ever.Does it not tell you the proper level?
I cannot imagine anyone making an aftermarket dipstick specifically for the V10.
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Hmm, I've got a hell of a time reading my dipstick. To best describe it, it'll mark the oil level across the hatches, but it'll also leave oil up the stick, to about 1/16" to the edge. It looks like it's overfilled, all the time, you've gotta search along the edge to see where the oil line levels off. Same thing with the trans stick, it's got fluid all over the place, and I can't tell where the line is.
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>Does anyone offer a real dipstick for a 02 SD V-10
>engine.This thing is just too thin.
>
>Thanks
YES! YES! YES! they do !!!!! Dipstick yes ! real No the winner is he drives an X cursion guess who it is!!!!!!!!!!! we understand he's kinda on the???? side
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>engine.This thing is just too thin.
>
>Thanks
YES! YES! YES! they do !!!!! Dipstick yes ! real No the winner is he drives an X cursion guess who it is!!!!!!!!!!! we understand he's kinda on the???? side
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'''Ford Trucks Built Tough!
not with rocks
Watch out "X" Mayor of Truckville
I couldn't resist payback for the yeti"s and Forty's house
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>>Does anyone offer a real dipstick for a 02 SD V-10
>>engine.This thing is just too thin.
>>
>>Thanks
>
>YES! YES! YES! they do !!!!! Dipstick yes ! real No the
>winner is he drives an X cursion guess who it is!!!!!!!!!!!
:-staun I'm not gonna touch that one
.I'm real tempted though.
Munkey does raise a good point.The dipstick does pick up oil off of the tube and this makes reading it a bit funky,especially with fresh oil.
The main reason I asked this question is because if a person (me) isn't careful when removing it,it will flop about and sling a bit of oil.You also have to use both hands when reinstalling it or you'll spend a month of Sundays getting it to hold still enough to hit the hole.I was hoping that maybe the earlier models used a heavier one or someone may have used a higher quality "stiffer" replacement.
Seems like this is an example of some misguided attempt at saving weight.
>>engine.This thing is just too thin.
>>
>>Thanks
>
>YES! YES! YES! they do !!!!! Dipstick yes ! real No the
>winner is he drives an X cursion guess who it is!!!!!!!!!!!
:-staun I'm not gonna touch that one
.I'm real tempted though.Munkey does raise a good point.The dipstick does pick up oil off of the tube and this makes reading it a bit funky,especially with fresh oil.
The main reason I asked this question is because if a person (me) isn't careful when removing it,it will flop about and sling a bit of oil.You also have to use both hands when reinstalling it or you'll spend a month of Sundays getting it to hold still enough to hit the hole.I was hoping that maybe the earlier models used a heavier one or someone may have used a higher quality "stiffer" replacement.
Seems like this is an example of some misguided attempt at saving weight.
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This conversation could go downhill fast... but I won't be the one to take it there!
I grab the dipstick in the middle so it doesn't flop so much. You don't HAVE to use the handle- if you don't mind getting a very small amount of oil on your hand.
I grab the dipstick in the middle so it doesn't flop so much. You don't HAVE to use the handle- if you don't mind getting a very small amount of oil on your hand.
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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 06-Jun-02 AT 12:19 PM (EST)]
>I grab the dipstick in the middle so it doesn't flop so
>much. You don't HAVE to use the handle- if you don't mind
>getting a very small amount of oil on your hand.
Wow! I had to check the thread title! 
For a minute, I thought "forty" was fantasizing over my lifted excursion again! 
>This conversation could go downhill fast... but I
>won't be the one to take it there!
I Could'nt Help Myself!!!
>I grab the dipstick in the middle so it doesn't flop so
>much. You don't HAVE to use the handle- if you don't mind
>getting a very small amount of oil on your hand.
Wow!
I had to check the thread title! For a minute, I thought "forty" was fantasizing over my lifted excursion again! >This conversation could go downhill fast... but I
>won't be the one to take it there!
I Could'nt Help Myself!!!
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>Wow! I had to check the thread title! For a
>minute, I thought "forty" was fantasizing over my
>lifted excursion again!
>
Now you've gone and done it... brought up a different kind of "lubrication".
I had to check the thread title! For a >minute, I thought "forty" was fantasizing over my
>lifted excursion again!
>
Now you've gone and done it... brought up a different kind of "lubrication".
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>>Wow! I had to check the thread title! For a
>>minute, I thought "forty" was fantasizing over my
>>lifted excursion again!
>>
>Now you've gone and done it... brought up a different kind
>of "lubrication".
I know I heard strange noise coming from my garage last night.
Maybe it was'nt forty?
I ran out and heard a swoosh 'as discribed in another thread'. The hood was up on my excursion and the dipstick was dangling from it's sheath! Crumpled up under the oil pan I found a red cape with a strange lubrication stain... Almost as though someone had used it to wipe off a dipstick and dropped it in their haste to leave. :-X23
Tonight I'm leaving a small chunck of Green Kriptonite hidden behind my oily K&N air filter.... Just in Case!!! :+ :+
I had to check the thread title! For a >>minute, I thought "forty" was fantasizing over my
>>lifted excursion again!
>>
>Now you've gone and done it... brought up a different kind
>of "lubrication".
I know I heard strange noise coming from my garage last night.
Maybe it was'nt forty?
I ran out and heard a swoosh 'as discribed in another thread'. The hood was up on my excursion and the dipstick was dangling from it's sheath! Crumpled up under the oil pan I found a red cape with a strange lubrication stain... Almost as though someone had used it to wipe off a dipstick and dropped it in their haste to leave. :-X23
Tonight I'm leaving a small chunck of Green Kriptonite hidden behind my oily K&N air filter.... Just in Case!!! :+ :+
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At first I was thinking you were all talking about the tranny DIPSTICK. But Iquickly realized the gas engines have the little round DIPSTICKS. I got the real DIPSTICK you all envy. HA HA HA
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If you install the dipstick with the wording up, you can look at the underside of the stick to see the level. Somehow the top side always gets messed up comming out the tube.
P.S. I've always had to use both hands to insert my dipstick.
P.S. I've always had to use both hands to insert my dipstick.
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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 07-Jun-02 AT 10:34 PM (EST)]I somehow get the feeling,The guy in red cape will be by to tellus important things about the Advanced Technological improvements in the dipstick.
Abendex where are you ?????????
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Mrrottendog,did the Kryptonite catch ya anything the other night?
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4x4x4x4 sorry I took your thread over and went down the path with it
I hate the quality of them too!
''''Rich
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Ford Trucks Built Tough!
not with rocks
Watch out "X" Mayor of Truckville:
Abendex where are you ?????????
-hair
Yeti! stop playing racecar driver!
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'''Mrrottendog,did the Kryptonite catch ya anything the other night?
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'''4x4x4x4 sorry I took your thread over and went down the path with it
I hate the quality of them too!
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Sit. Stay.
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>I somehow get the feeling,The guy in red cape will be by to
>tell us important things about the Advanced Technological
>improvements in the dipstick.
Alright, let's get some things straight!
Yer just jealous cause YOU don't have a sheet...I mean...cape.
Second, I don't check my oil with the dipstick...er,...mechanical, lubrication fluid, capacity gauge...I do it the old fashioned way...
I drain all my oil out and verify it by pouring it into little glass beakers that are scientifically accurate. It is painstaking but my truck is worth it!
And please. No kryptonite! PLEASE! http://www.plaudersmilies.de/errrr.gif
>tell us important things about the Advanced Technological
>improvements in the dipstick.
Alright, let's get some things straight!
Yer just jealous cause YOU don't have a sheet...I mean...cape.
Second, I don't check my oil with the dipstick...er,...mechanical, lubrication fluid, capacity gauge...I do it the old fashioned way...
I drain all my oil out and verify it by pouring it into little glass beakers that are scientifically accurate. It is painstaking but my truck is worth it!
And please. No kryptonite! PLEASE! http://www.plaudersmilies.de/errrr.gif