Re: Dip Stick
Posted by HH56 On 2013/1/25 12:43:33
My 47 356 is loose as well. I see there is a hole on the dipstick a distance down from the stop. Wonder what that was for or any chance there was something like a plastic button pressed into the hole to put pressure and friction against the side of the tube.
EDIT: Did some research and found a 1949 Service Counselor with pictures of dipsticks. Don't know for sure how far back or forward this design applies -- maybe 40-54?? -- but if you have a dipstick with a hole, it is for the end of a bowed length of spring wire which spans between the stop and the hole providing friction pressure against the tube.
If no hole then no ideas other than 55-6 used several bends in the dipstick to provide friction for a tighter slide into the tube.
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EDIT: Did some research and found a 1949 Service Counselor with pictures of dipsticks. Don't know for sure how far back or forward this design applies -- maybe 40-54?? -- but if you have a dipstick with a hole, it is for the end of a bowed length of spring wire which spans between the stop and the hole providing friction pressure against the tube.
If no hole then no ideas other than 55-6 used several bends in the dipstick to provide friction for a tighter slide into the tube.
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