New dipstick soon to be available
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10-09-2010, 06:32 AM
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New dipstick soon to be available
To those who have the twisted metal band dipstick and want to upgrade to the cable type, it will be available in the first week of November.
Service Part Number - BC3Z-6750-B
Retail Price - $7.28
Also, here's a better explanation of the tortured routing that the dipstick takes on it's way down to the sump:Retail Price - $7.28
"Also as an fyi...it took several months to design an acceptable routing for the trans fill and dipstick. Typically one of the last features to be designed, between the reverse flow head design, secondary fuel filter location, high pressure fuel layout and the clearance to cowl along with heat management from the up-pipes, engine decking clearances for final assembly, etc. made what would normally be an easy design, much more difficult than most anyone could imagine.
We would have preferred catching a cylinder head oil drain back passage to the sump, but there was just no feasible solution that worked for engine oil. The trans tube was even worse trying to maintain some angle to allow fluid to be added."
We would have preferred catching a cylinder head oil drain back passage to the sump, but there was just no feasible solution that worked for engine oil. The trans tube was even worse trying to maintain some angle to allow fluid to be added."
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10-09-2010, 08:47 AM
Thanks for posting that, Epic!
not sure about "upgrading" though. The 6.0L and 6.4L had the cable style dipstick which was very similar to the one you posted earlier. These dipsticks were hated by most everyone because it was far more difficult to determine the correct oil level.
The 6.4L had a record for fuel diluting the engine oil and raising the oil level in the crankcase high enough to cause engine failure. The problem was that the cable style dipstick was impossible to read above the bulb at the bottom. A Ford TSB even described an alternate method to check for an overfill condition by "short-stick" method, where you don't re-insert the dipstick all the way into the tube.
So I don't know. This dipstick is very difficult for me to use, so I may have to "upgrade"...
not sure about "upgrading" though. The 6.0L and 6.4L had the cable style dipstick which was very similar to the one you posted earlier. These dipsticks were hated by most everyone because it was far more difficult to determine the correct oil level.
The 6.4L had a record for fuel diluting the engine oil and raising the oil level in the crankcase high enough to cause engine failure. The problem was that the cable style dipstick was impossible to read above the bulb at the bottom. A Ford TSB even described an alternate method to check for an overfill condition by "short-stick" method, where you don't re-insert the dipstick all the way into the tube.
So I don't know. This dipstick is very difficult for me to use, so I may have to "upgrade"...
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10-16-2010, 07:33 PM
It has changed to the cable option from the twisted steel at KTP and now Ford is offering us early buyers the option to replace with the cable dipstick.
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Thanks PowerStroke. This method of properly checking the oil level requires a bit of timing though. I have to actually have to make a point to remember to go check the oil 20 minutes after shut down to get an accurate reading. Is there anything wrong with checking the oil when the engine is fully cold or is it only properly displayed for a short time after the 20 minute window?
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10-28-2010, 05:45 PM
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