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    1/10/2020 6:00 PM  #1

    RV6
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    Sheared off my dip stick tube.

    In the never ending quest to update the 67, stuff happens. A new dip-stick tube showed up from NPD today. An easy swap, Bwahahaha! I grabbed the old one to pull it out and it came out really easy. The problem is I left the bottom part of the tube in the timing cover.
    Is there an easy way to remove the portion of tube stuck in the timing cover without pulling it. I thought I would ask before grabbing the cutting torch. 

    Gary Zilik - Pine Junction, Colorado - 67 Coupe, 289-4V, T5
     

    1/10/2020 6:15 PM  #2

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    Re: Sheared off my dip stick tube.

    Maybe use a tap or bolt extractor?  That would probably be able to grab onto that bit of tube.

    You would need to be careful as it would be far worse to break off a hardened High speed steel tap in there.

    Another option would be to take a center punch and grind it into the shape of a transmission bushing remover punch / chisel and try to use it- without knocking the remaining bit of tube into the block.

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    1/10/2020 6:34 PM  #3

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    Re: Sheared off my dip stick tube.

    Tap should work .
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    1/10/2020 6:35 PM  #4

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    Re: Sheared off my dip stick tube.

    Gary, if you have room to work, see if you can bend a section of whats left of the tube, just enough to grab that bent section with a pair needle nose pliers. If you can grab it with those pliers, you may be able to twist it more and pull it out.

     

    1/10/2020 6:59 PM  #5

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    Re: Sheared off my dip stick tube.

    I would first recommend the tap method. It looks like a flange might be left to be able to grab it with some dikes to pry it out. If you smash it too much with the dikes you can run a small diameter punch between the hole and the piece to collapse it and then pull it out. But again the best bet is the tap. 

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    1/10/2020 7:21 PM  #6

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    Re: Sheared off my dip stick tube.

    Try an easy out.  It worked for me when I did the same.

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    1/11/2020 11:33 AM  #7

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    Re: Sheared off my dip stick tube.

    I see from your VMF post you have a slide hammer. Get a long socket head cap screw, one that  the head will pass into the tube in the timing cover, push the head down into the hole so that the head will snag the bottom of the tube.
    You should be able to attach the threaded end of the cap screw to the slide hammer and then bump the busted  part of the tube out.
    Of course the whole set up should be assembled before you put the slide hammer down there, you don’t want to drop a loose  cap screw down into the pan.

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    1/11/2020 11:45 AM  #8

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    Re: Sheared off my dip stick tube.

    Rudi wrote:

    I see from your VMF post you have a slide hammer. Get a long socket head cap screw, one that the head will pass into the tube in the timing cover, push the head down into the hole so that the head will snag the bottom of the tube.
    You should be able to attach the threaded end of the cap screw to the slide hammer and then bump the busted part of the tube out.
    Of course the whole set up should be assembled before you put the slide hammer down there, you don’t want to drop a loose cap screw down into the pan.

    Rudi,

    Wonderful idea. It is now on my list of things to try. That little tube is really stuck. Sorta makes me wonder how I'll get the new one installed.

    Gary Zilik - Pine Junction, Colorado - 67 Coupe, 289-4V, T5
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    1/11/2020 1:09 PM  #9

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    Re: Sheared off my dip stick tube.

    Well, I tried a tap and broke it off in the tube and managed to get it out. I tried and ez-out with heat, nothing. I tried Rudi's suggestion of a cap screw the catch the bottom of the tube and try and ease it out with a slide hammer. Nothing. It just peeled off slivers of the tube till there was nothing to crab. I tried a punch to start collapsing the tube so I  could get an all in there and collapse the rest. I'm afraid of breaking the casting with the last method so I am going to pull the timing chain cover. 
    I think the fact that the tube has been in the cover for 55 years has something to do with its refusal to depart the cover. At least the front of the engine will be sparkly again.

    Gary Zilik - Pine Junction, Colorado - 67 Coupe, 289-4V, T5
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    1/11/2020 1:15 PM  #10

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    Re: Sheared off my dip stick tube.

    I really though Rudi's idea was going to work. I had to shave down the head of the cap screw a little to get it to fit.

     

    Gary Zilik - Pine Junction, Colorado - 67 Coupe, 289-4V, T5
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    1/18/2020 4:56 PM  #11

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    Re: Sheared off my dip stick tube.

    After pulling the front of the engine off to replace a dip stick tube all is back together again. What a pain in the butt. Butt, I do have a new water pump and timing chain in the process. 

    Gary Zilik - Pine Junction, Colorado - 67 Coupe, 289-4V, T5
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    1/18/2020 5:45 PM  #12

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    Re: Sheared off my dip stick tube.

    Have you considered a little clearancing of that idler pulley bracket under the thermostat.  Man, those tstat housing bolts are a PITA even without building a wall in front!

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    1/18/2020 6:03 PM  #13

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    Re: Sheared off my dip stick tube.

    Looks good Gary...

     

     

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