Project 7.3

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Oil Leak at oil dipstick mount on passenger side of oil pan. 
This is one I avoided doing after finding out what needed to be done. This dipstick mount is inserted from the inside of the oil pan with an Oring that fits in a groove and a large thread protruding thru pan with a large nut attaching on the outside. The oil leak has been going on for a long time, dealer said back in the early years it would require engine removal to gain access inside oil pan. A $5G job I'm not willing to part with. I was able to stop the oil leak for a while just by snugging large nut, did this 2twice over the years until nut finally bottomed. Now I am that crossroad of having to address a fix. In the past 3yrs I found a couple of new fixes from diesel shops that sell those fixes. A tool was designed to insert into mount after dipstick removed so mount would not fall into bottom of oil pan. This aides into removal of Oring from outside. There are a couple of YouTube videos on the different methods of fix. One method was a total replacement redesign mount for the outside of oil pan. I didn't like this one which required old Oring removal and letting the OEM mount drop into bottom of oil pan, it has been claimed that it poses no threat to any moving internal engine parts. The threat would be the old Oring floating around if it fell in the pan bottom. What I opted to do is replace Oring on mount and Oring on dipstick about a total of $6.50 to OEM. 


                  
Starter must be         Large nut securing          Double twisted .041     Small needle vice       Final, notches on mount
removed for easier     dipstick mount              wire with hook on end  grip for solid hold      for dipstick position
access                                                             to grab lip inside 
                                                                        mount with a wedge
                                                                        as added security 
                                                                        holding hook in place.
                                                                        Groove for Oring & 
                                                                        Oring can be seen