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On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 12:41, Greg Merritt wrote: > > Mine wasn't loose until I tried dropping the engine & tranny an > inch or two, and yanked the dipstick out after I realized I'd forgotten to > remove it and was about to bend it. (I was working on extracting the AT > shift lever that hits the trailing arm if you try to slide it out.) > > Isn't that the point of the stopper being there? To give you an > accurate measure of the oil level? Or does the dipstick bottom out on the > case, with the stopper actually just being a "plug" to keep oil from going > up the tube? > > Interesting... HELP US, JIM AND RUSS!!! ;) > It is just there as an anti-rattle piece. It should be about 4-5" above the end of the dip stick. The end of the dip stick should bottom out, and then the spring takes over. This allows for the slight mis-alignment of the engine and body. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT (It drove) '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe