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Ok. My wifes 98 runner sheered the flywheel and that caused all sorts of internal damage. Well long story short after one bad yard long block and a headache to return it I got a good long block out of a 2wd, apparently. I had a shop put it in. They did the oil pan swap, timing belt, regasket, etc. however they forgot to check the dipstick. Old one wont go in all the way and 2wd one wont register with different pan. Engine is installed and being driven. Can I drop the front diff and drill from the inside to put a new dipstick bung in? Or do I have to pull the motor. Again...
Uhm if you have one of those low-profile drills I can see drilling from the inside as doable. Not really recalling the placement of the swapped dipstick tube off hand.
I thought the entire 2WD dipstick tube can be removed from the block and replaced with the correct 4WD dipstick and dipstick tube, the dipstick tube should just pull out of the block and is held in place by a support bracket and bolt and o-rings for a friction fit into the block? is there a difference in the bore size on the block for a 2WD Tube and 4WD Tube, that would seem odd, the only difference should be the Tube and dipstick lengths to make production seamless you would think.
Dunno if this is in any way helpful...
Where your dipstick tube receptacle is does appear to also be on my motor but without diving too deep does appear to be plugged with something. You may be able to find the hole for the 4wd as illustrated below-
96 3.4 4wd if it helps any- you're right about different location, though not far from there. This is just copy/pasta'd from my build thread, comments can be ignored-
Here's where it goes:
Pointing to it:
Carefully push into hole until bracket lines up with screw hole. It should be a little bit harder to get in because shiny new o-ring! That's the bottom of the lower radiator hose at the top of the pic.
Like I said, way longer to document than to do, it's a 5 minute job and that's including grabbing the 10mm socket and ratchet, a rag and a little screwdriver to scrape the icky dirty stuff away from the tube.
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Also, while I had it apart I measured how far the dipstick extended below the tube, in centimeters:
and a close-up of the measurement:
Sometimes this question is asked, usually having to do with an aftermarket replacement dipstick. Now it can be answered!
Last edited by habanero; Mar 10, 2019 at 08:24 AM.
Mar 7, 2019 | 01:08 PM
