[DeTomaso] Oil dipsticks that can actually be checked!

Thomas Tornblom thomas at hax.se
Sun Mar 3 07:27:17 EST 2013


Here's two old photos from my car, one with the stock dipstick, and one 
with the new stick. Same stock tube in both cases:

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http://www.hax.se/efi/induction.jpeg

http://www.hax.se/rebuild-2002/engine-complete-l.jpeg

My guess is that all vendors have it.

Thomas


2013-03-03 13:13, Rob Dumoulin skrev:
> My Pantera, #1488, must have the orig. Mustang one because it is a PITA.
> You can barely see the dipstick handle to pull it out and can't see the
> tube it fits back in from the back. If everybody else's was fixed, no
> wonder there was confusion. Maybe if drive down to the Lincoln-Mercury
> dealer and demand them to do the recall service.......
> On Mar 3, 2013 2:17 AM,<JDeRyke at aol.com>  wrote:
>
>> I didn't think of it before, but it may be that his Pantera has the
>> extremely early version dipstick -actually a stock Mustang/Fairlane stick
>> about 12"
>> long- that I've never seen 'cause almost all were retrofitted to the
>> extended type during initial U.S. dealer prep. FWIW- J DeRyke
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