...it's for a Pinto, so it's on topic!!
I've got a 351w with no dipstick tube provision. I've got a Milodon pan wiht no dipstick provision. My timing cover had no provision, so I picked up the cover pictured here.
My question is, where the hell does the dipstick tube enter the motor? The raised boss on the left looks ready to accept a tube, but holding it up to the engine it looks like the dipstick would just kind of hang in the air...
Can anyone shed some light on what I need to do to be able to check my oil?
I may have an answer for you which has nothing to do with Pinto's.
My current F-150 was presented to me with a connecting rod exposing itself outside the passenger side of the engine block. :'(
The vehicle was free so I did not ask about anything. I found out afterwards that the vehicle came with a 302. The engine was a 351 M. The "M" stands for modified, and if there is ever an engine that was produced by the Ford Motor Company, this IS the one that I will in the future, avoid the most. Too many headaches explaining the situation to anyone else.
As I pulled said engine from the vehicle, I destroyed the dip stick arrangement. I failed to notice that the dip stick entered the engine, (on the driver's side), about half way up the side of the oil pan from the bottom of the pan. Most, (what I would call normal), engines have the dip stick entering the block on the driver's side. Mind you, "normal", in my opinion, left us in 1974.
I am now in the process of placing an 84 F-150 cab on an 86 F-350 Super Cab chassis that had an eight foot bed. When done I hope to have a twelve foot bed that will quite capable of transporting Pinto's, wagons or sedans and runabouts.
The 86 has a 351 Windsor with the dip stick, in the same position as the "M", mongrel in my book.
You may wish to check out your local parts store. They should have an "Undercarriage" book, (fuel tanks, sending units, tank straps, power steering stuff, etc.), that should be able to help you.
Hope this helps.
Al
this is my set up.
Thanks to all that replied-
There IS a flat area on the cover where the stick would go that corresponds to where yours is, I'll just get a diameter from a dipstick tube and drill it, and we'll never have to speak of this again... :)
Thanks again-
Paul