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(Message started by: mk1boy on Nov 27^th, 2011, 11:02pm)

Title: Dipstick
Post by mk1boy on Nov 27^th, 2011, 11:02pm

Hi, I need a dipstick AND tube for a 2.3 if anyone has one going spare....thanks
Tim

Title: Re: Dipstick
Post by gozz on Nov 28^th, 2011, 9:32am

I will send you one for £12 inc post.PM me your address if you want it.
GOZZ.

Title: Re: Dipstick
Post by Mike H on Nov 28^th, 2011, 12:27pm

Is this for the car that came with it missing?

Title: Re: Dipstick
Post by mk1boy on Dec 20^th, 2011, 8:57pm

Saved by Gozz - what a man!

Title: Re: Dipstick
Post by Mike H on Dec 21^st, 2011, 12:37am

So what was on there instead then?

Title: Re: Dipstick
Post by gozz on Dec 21^st, 2011, 4:20pm

Anole I reckon Mike ;)
GOZZ.

Title: Re: Dipstick
Post by Mike H on Dec 21^st, 2011, 6:21pm

Yikes....

Title: Re: Dipstick
Post by mk1boy on Dec 21^st, 2011, 10:40pm

One thing I will now always look for when buying a car is whether it has a dipstick. C'mon guys, honestly - would you check for something as obvious as that....? :-[

Title: Re: Dipstick
Post by lesterlad aka Rodders on Dec 22^nd, 2011, 11:59am

[quote author=mk1boy link=board=admin4;num=1322434951;start=0#7 date=12/21/11 at 22:40:27]One thing I will now always look for when buying a car is whether it has a dipstick. C'mon guys, honestly - would you check for something as obvious as that....? :-[/quote]

Ermm, yes, if only to check the condition of the oil and whether there was enough in it.

Title: Re: Dipstick
Post by mk1boy on Mar 26^th, 2012, 10:32pm

Having searched high and low (well, just low) for the dipstick 'ole, I gave up. There isn't one. So I gave the car to a friendly mechanic to look at and he said the same thing. No 'ole, but there is a blank where one could be drilled. He says the engine is from something else that must have relied on an electronic oil level measuring system or somesuch nonsense. Any ideas?
thanks

Title: Re: Dipstick
Post by gozz on Mar 27^th, 2012, 12:02am

A rarity indeed :o I suppose the Galaxy has a dipstick ? if so it would be at the front of the engine bay,as in the Scorpio it is on the nearside at the rear of the engine.There's a fair chance that these engines have been used in industrial applications whereby,as the man said,an electric gauge and possibly an electric engine cut out if the oil ran low.
As Rodders pointed out,when buying a used vehicle you would always have a look what's on the dipstick and in the cooling system,in case somebody tries to palm you off with a faulty head gasket.
GOZZ.

Title: Re: Dipstick
Post by 5stud on Mar 27^th, 2012, 10:42am

you have a sh-ore-recon motor out of a fwd galaxy the dipstick hole is in a dferent place .years ago when i put a 8v scorpio motor into a galaxy had to blankof the hole and drill a new one but you cant do that insitue

Title: Re: Dipstick
Post by mk1boy on Mar 28^th, 2012, 4:53pm

interesting! you say the hole is in a different place - give me a clue?!
thanks ???

Title: Re: Dipstick
Post by 5stud on Mar 29^th, 2012, 9:49am

it will nowe be behind the cat so you cant see the old hole you might just feel it but its v tight.you cant just put a dipstick en ther ase the balancer shaft will eat the dipstick.if you have a galaxy sump on your motor it will have a slot in it to let the expipe throu.