[ITowBoats]

So i got a call this week to do a boat delivery down to new york from cape cod. its a wednesday trip so i decided to give everything a once over since this is my first long distance trip in a while and wanted to make sure i didn't have any surprises. well to my surprise i found oil all over the front of the oil pan. its leaking from the dipstick gasket.

I have already paid a shop to fix it once (alittle over a year ago) so i'm going to try and guilt tripping them into fixing in before i go on wednesday afternoon. the new gasket they had put on was pushed out when they tightened the nut and split, so getting the old one off won't be hard.

I'm wondering if its possible to loosen the nut and get enough space to slide the new one down the dipstick tube and stretch it over the nut then tighten it all back up.

the job cost me $450 bucks the first time because they went all over the motor from the turbo down trying to find it, so there was alot of unneeded labor. has anybody been able to do it or try it this way without removing the nut completely? the rubber seems pretty stretchy so it seems like you could work it around the nut without splitting or tearing it.

thanks for you advice, the service center opens at 7, so i'll be on the phone bright and early.

 

[wilson61]

look in old posts i put pn i no longer have.but the guest is go to a IH truck location and get the right orings 2 one big for around the big plug and a small one for the dip stick. also make sure you have a set of gripper clamps like doctors use to hold the brass part so you dont loose it inside the pan.
1 pull dip stick and the starter /yes you need the room so you dont drop the brass nut.
2. put the big oring on the clamp then grab the hole the dip sick goes in then back off the nut. check it as some have stripped the threads over tighting it trying to stop leak. if it is stripped then you got problems as it can omnly be replaced by dropping the pan.sorry i have not done it so no help there
3 very easy pulsh the big brass in and cut the oring and get rid of the old. slip the new in it fits in a grove and then pull it back where it goes and thighten the not to just good not over tight so you stripp the nut.
good luck