On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 02:41:53 GMT, (Drew
Dalgleish) wrote:

On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:55:58 -0700, Don Tuite
wrote:

As MO, I've taken to warning club members not to tighten the dipsstick
on the '74 Challenger even slightly. Even a little extra torque makes
it very difficult to unscrew. Last week somebody torqued the entire
plastic tube off the engine just loosening the dipstick.

Something's goofy. What?

Don

Probably the o-ring at the top is worn to the point that it gets
caught in the threads instead of just sitting on the flat top. BTW on
my engine there's a safety wire at the bottom of the dipstick tube so
that it can;'t unscrew.

Two, actually. One was ripped out, the other bent. That baby was
seized.

Don