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Old 08-07-2018, 07:30 PM
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I have a good leak from the oil dipstick tube. Tried cleaning the block and installing new mopar dipstick tube from Morris Offroad. New tube went in tight but seemed a little easy to seat it.

i don’t really want to use metal-set or something to sea l but i need to do something.

Any products recommended to reseal this dipstick tube? Would be nice if there was like a Copper crush fitting that these dipstick used rather than just a close tolerance fit.

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look at using permatex #2
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Ahh yes thank you. Guess i was over thinking the damn dipstick tube. That should work!
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Repair the blow-by?
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Repair the blow-by?
you think the oil leak from my dipstick is oil blow-by? As in bad piston rings? Would that be pressurizing the oil pan to where the oil leaks past the dipstick tube.
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you think the oil leak from my dipstick is oil blow-by? As in bad piston rings? Would that be pressurizing the oil pan to where the oil leaks past the dipstick tube.
yes.
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yes.
well damn. It does make sense. I’ll try the cheap fix for now and try and get a year or two more out of it before full engine rebuild.
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