Per the title, this is the second (
) time this has happened on my '97 Civic EX 2 dr . Per the pix, attached, the rubber portion of the dipstick has shrunk and now it's a sloppy fit into the hole in the transaxle case. As indicated, this was a new dipstick I bought, and it, too, now is sloppy. Said dipstick hole in the transaxle case is on a horizontal ledge on the case and said ledge is quite low, close to the ground. It'd have a propensity to have road splash / water deposited onto the ledge which'd make its way into the ATF 
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Do folks think soaking this assembly into a small diameter, tall cylinder filled with HMMO (seal swellers) would have merit?
Or, I could also use PVC tape (is there a high temp variant??) to build up the diameter with several turns of tape.
Any other ideas? Anyone with similar experience?
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) time this has happened on my '97 Civic EX 2 dr . Per the pix, attached, the rubber portion of the dipstick has shrunk and now it's a sloppy fit into the hole in the transaxle case. As indicated, this was a new dipstick I bought, and it, too, now is sloppy. Said dipstick hole in the transaxle case is on a horizontal ledge on the case and said ledge is quite low, close to the ground. It'd have a propensity to have road splash / water deposited onto the ledge which'd make its way into the ATF . Do folks think soaking this assembly into a small diameter, tall cylinder filled with HMMO (seal swellers) would have merit?
Or, I could also use PVC tape (is there a high temp variant??) to build up the diameter with several turns of tape.
Any other ideas? Anyone with similar experience?
..
