Young Ed Posted July 15, 2022 Report Share Posted July 15, 2022 Snowballed so much it might as well be December! Simple project I thought to replace a broken dipstick tube glued in place by a previous owner. Bottom of it was basically flush with block and the rest was stuck inside. Orangish piece is a blob of glue or gasket maker they used to try and hold it in place. Last fall when checking the oil before our last trip of the season the dipstick tube came out with the dipstick! Fast forward to this summer. New tube purchased. Tried easy out, tapped some threads in it and tried pulling it with a bolt and a slide hammer. Tried to put string trimmer string through it and out the dipstick so I could push it through. Nothing so I resorted to drilling. Got just about done and the drill snagged and snapped off a 3/8 drill in the block. So off comes the pan. Maybe a rookie mistake but I didn't know the hole necks down drastically at the bottom so my pushing through plan or drilling plan was destined to fail. Now tonight I got all the under hood stuff wrapped up and started cleaning the oil pan for when my gasket set arrives tomorrow. Tragedy strikes again. I started seeing an area in the pan that looked like the same gunk holding the dipstick. And then some other areas that had little blobs of rtv. Sure enough HOLES in my oil pan. Not the easiest to see but there are 3 holes that sorta form a triangle in the sump and a 4th not pictured under the gunk above. So tomorrow before I can reinstall anything I'll be attempting to weld these babies up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Hiebert Posted July 15, 2022 Report Share Posted July 15, 2022 Yep, the bane of working on old cars...dealing with a PO's "repairs". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plymouthy Adams Posted July 15, 2022 Report Share Posted July 15, 2022 poor thing looks to be a victim of a smear campaign instigated by a guy with the initials J B W I am sure you will do the proper fix on this. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Young Ed Posted July 15, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2022 30 minutes ago, Plymouthy Adams said: poor thing looks to be a victim of a smear campaign instigated by a guy with the initials J B W I am sure you will do the proper fix on this. Long term I'll scoop up a new pan. Luckily this is one of the parts that fits between A and LA 318s so a new pan is readily available but of course not in time for the weekend and then the cars trip to the trans shop to get that leaking fixed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plymouthy Adams Posted July 15, 2022 Report Share Posted July 15, 2022 these older trannies were notorious for leaking about the shifter shaft input as the seal would dry out on cars that do not get a lot of daily use and keep the seal well lubed. They will leak when sitting...seal when drove a spell...not drip for days...then, drip drip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Young Ed Posted July 16, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2022 Oil pan repair held gasoline all day. I figured if it holds that it should hold oil. Pan is back on and just about got everything else reinstalled. Gotta locate one castle nut for the steering that seems to have rolled away..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plymouthy Adams Posted July 17, 2022 Report Share Posted July 17, 2022 ask the kids....they may be crafty enough to figure out a castle nut makes a good bike spoke wrench... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Young Ed Posted July 17, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2022 38 minutes ago, Plymouthy Adams said: ask the kids....they may be crafty enough to figure out a castle nut makes a good bike spoke wrench... Haha I outsmarted myself and had it back on the idler arm so I wouldn't loose it!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Young Ed Posted July 17, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2022 Car drove out to the driveway and seems to be good! I'll know for sure after the show tomorrow. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plymouthy Adams Posted July 17, 2022 Report Share Posted July 17, 2022 have a good time, I know you worked hard to get the car ready for the event....post a show picture or two.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Young Ed Posted July 19, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2022 Car ran down to the show and back perfectly. It's about 60 miles round trip. We did spend some time in traffic which really sucks in a car with no AC. Here's a few pics I took. This was a little challenging. The other 2 cars were ready parked and they wanted me to back in there but I was coming from the wrong direction... Had to snap a couple pics of the Empi that was there. Unfortunately it was about to rain so I didn't get a chance to really talk to the owner. He was about to run for home. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veemoney Posted July 19, 2022 Report Share Posted July 19, 2022 Wagon is looking good, some repairs and $30 of gas gets you to the show on time?. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Young Ed Posted August 12, 2022 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2022 Next one- this is likely to snowball too but it'll be self induced. My wagon used to have aftermarket air deflectors at the rear. The one side still has 2 random screws. Other side they got patched I guess. Anyway I tracked down a set of the factory handles and air deflectors. The snowball part will come in when I start taking apart the ancient plastic trim to bolt these on. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerseyHarold Posted August 15, 2022 Report Share Posted August 15, 2022 Do the handles and deflectors need additional inside bracing to be installed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Young Ed Posted August 16, 2022 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2022 8 hours ago, JerseyHarold said: Do the handles and deflectors need additional inside bracing to be installed? That's a good question and one I haven't found the answer to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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