Removing Oil Dipstick with Ford Performance Strut Tower Brace Above It.

[Starship Enterprise]

As I’m getting more familiar with my car, I was trying to figure out the best way to remove/ replace the dipstick with the Ford Perf. Tower Brace directly above it. (I installed the brace)

Removing it, isn’t bad, it just pulls off to the side of the brace. There’s just enough flex to make it.

Replacing it is more tricky, but I figured out how to make it easy…As you know the dipstick will only easily bend forward and back along it’s flat side, and that side curls into the side of the engine.

So I wiped the dipstick clean after checking, and with the flat side of the stick facing the top of the engine, I laid it parallel between the tower brace and the engine. Meaning the stick is laid lengthwise across the engine and underneath the tower brace. Then I reached under the brace and just fed the stick into the hole (giggity) and with the flat side facing the direction it is going to curl, it just slid in so easily. Since the stick is wiped clean, no oil drips on top of the engine.

Maybe this helped some of you who have been fussing with putting the stick back under that tower brace, and maybe some others are like “No Shit”…lol. But if it helped one person, it was worth the time typing.

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[Farmer Fran]

I just drilled a hole in the STB

 

[Starship Enterprise]

That’s one solution…lol.

Good stuff!

 

[LouG]

I may have a bit more experience in inserting things in tight places than you.
After all, I am a qualified mechanic, so I should have.
But I don't find it a problem, pulling out is easy. Putting it back in really needs two hands.
One to hold the stick at the top to apply force, the other hand at the bottom to insert it without missing and getting the tip covered in dirty stuff.

 

[Farmer Fran]

I may have a bit more experience in inserting things in tight places than you.
After all, I am a qualified mechanic, so I should have.
But I don't find it a problem, pulling out is easy. Putting it back in really needs two hands.
One to hold the stick at the top to apply force, the other hand at the bottom to insert it without missing and getting the tip covered in dirty stuff.

Pulling out is absolutely the hard part

 

[LouG]

Pulling out is absolutely the hard part

Catholic?

 

[Starship Enterprise]

I may have a bit more experience in inserting things in tight places than you.
After all, I am a qualified mechanic, so I should have.
But I don't find it a problem, pulling out is easy. Putting it back in really needs two hands.
One to hold the stick at the top to apply force, the other hand at the bottom to insert it without missing and getting the tip covered in dirty stuff.

We still talkin about cars?

 

[LouG]

We still talkin about cars?

Whatever do you mean?

 

[bountifulgoose]

I have the ford catch cans as well so checking the oil level involves disconnecting the driver side catch can just to access the dip stick.

 

[schuvwj]

I added a J&L catch can and it really does make it more difficult to check the oil.
So I used a wing nut to allow easier removal for oil checking oil but it also makes it easier to empty the catch can!

 

[jboogie1289]

Whatever do you mean?

 

[sturner002]

Catholic?

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