johnny3986

I'm halfway done with the header install....

I searched, but I'm tired...sorry for the laziness but...

How the hell you pull the dipstick tube? I don't want to guess and make yet another trip to Slow-reilly's...

Any reply by 7am tommorow would be FANtabulous

RickS

it has a bolt holding the tube to the engine block. then wiggle the tube from the engine. upwards. with someluck it should come out without bending the tube

Josh'95Z28conv

What he said.

johnny3986

Suh-weet. I got the bolt. Time for header installation (FINALLY!!) Part Deuce!!

Cman

to make it easier to reinstall the tube run the part of the tube that goes into the engine block on a wire wheel and remove the thin layer of paint that is on the tube.

It's usually a bitch to get it back into the engine and can get tricky since it likes to go in only a certain way and at a certain angle. Getting rid of that thin layer of paint from the tube where it goes into the engine block will make it that much easier. Lube up that area a bit with engine oil also to help slide it in. Never force it, it goes right in.

Don't worry about rust or anything like that the oil will be there to keep the metal from corroding.

Tony

Jeff95TA

Also try freezing the tube before putting it back in.

ttop1986

thats what I did. I read on here that it works well, and it worked for me. It went right back in.

LtsRace

Freezing huh? I wish I would have tryed that...I had a hell of a time getting mine back in.

Cmr0z28

Unbolt it and rip the ****er out.

Taper the edge with a dremel and freeze it before you reinstall (+coat with oil) and it will slide right in.

robwin95z

you guys crack me up. lolololololololololololol. i am having two things keeping me from firing up my 95 z from the header install. the alternator and the dipstick tube. that s.o.b. is hard to get back in. who would've thought a damn tube going in a damn hole would be so damn hard. when yall recommended freezing it i thought i would die laughing. i'm gonna try that.

96ZCamaro

I had to bend my tube . Getting it back in though....I guess nothing a little hammer persuasion wont cure.

johnny3986

Well hell...

I posted that right before I passed out for the night. Woke up today at like 7am, read my two responses and got after it again. I finished 'er up today and didn't see the freezing trick.

Hafta tell ya though, that dipstick slid in on the first try... My apologies to those having a harder time. lol.

archangelus2

I just pulled my dipstick yesterday for a mac header install and came across a method I haven't seen on here yet and thought I would share, for future searchers:

1. Remove the bolt Holding the Dip stick on, should be cake.
2. Wiggle/Pull/Tug as hard as you can on the dip stick and from all possible angles, above and below the engine. Be careful with the rubber boot on top of the dipstick as mine got all cracked up from me manhandling it.
3. After about 10-15min of getting frustrated you should see a very small lip around the bottom of the dipstick where it goes into the block.
4.Get the longest, skinniest flathead screwdriver you have. From under the car put the head of the screwdriver under that lip and give it a few whacks with a hamer.
5.After about a dozen or so whacks and a few more wiggles it should come out.

Took me about 45min to get it out. After about 35min I found the lip and did the screwdriver technique and it wasn't much effort after that.

Hope that helps.

johnny3986

lol. Man, that sucks you guys.

Mine ended up coming out on the first few wiggles.

Went back in on try numero uno.

Wckd94Z

yep same with mine, pulled right out, stripped the paint of the end and it slid in like butter. 45 min to get it out?! yikes