Re: 1951 Ultramatic

Posted by HH56 On 2020/11/12 23:01:41

The setup with the bent tube would be a good way to avoid any false reading by turbulence or sloshing of fluid in the pan. It looks like it needs some kind of fitting to go along with it though.

Along those lines, if Lokar has a straight tube adapter or if something could be fabricated about the length of the original dipstick and soldered or suitably mounted on the extra cap, one of the push in flex tubes could be used which had a dipstick with a long enough extension that it would be able to measure the level.

It seems like something like that would be similar enough to their curved tube and might satisfy Lokar as to the exposed length of dipstick and also avoid any false reading if there was a lot of turbulence with the fluid. By putting it in the extra cap rather than modifying a pan the car could be returned to stock much easier.