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The part in yellow is modified by sanding it down with a file.
It's a rather strange problem. The oil dipstick became stuck, I had to use a tool for leverage to pry it out, and of course it won't back in. So, either the dipstick became 'defective' somehow (did it expand in size over time?) or the dipstick tube contracted somehow (did it acquire rust inside or something? It doesn't appear to the naked eye to be so.)
As a first step, I replaced the dipstick with a Dorman unit from Autozone for 14.50$. It did NOT work, same problem.
Solution #1 aka "make the hole bigger": use a drill bit to shave some metal off the inside of the dipstick tube.
Solution #2 aka "make the dipstick smaller": use sandpaper to shave down the size of dipstick
Solution 2 is probably better, for obvious reasons (we don't want metal shavings down the dipstick tube.)
What do you think? This seems to be a really rare issue, and I don't understand how this can happen.
The part in yellow is modified by sanding it down with a file.
It's a rather strange problem. The oil dipstick became stuck, I had to use a tool for leverage to pry it out, and of course it won't back in. So, either the dipstick became 'defective' somehow (did it expand in size over time?) or the dipstick tube contracted somehow (did it acquire rust inside or something? It doesn't appear to the naked eye to be so.)
As a first step, I replaced the dipstick with a Dorman unit from Autozone for 14.50$. It did NOT work, same problem.
Solution #1 aka "make the hole bigger": use a drill bit to shave some metal off the inside of the dipstick tube.
Solution #2 aka "make the dipstick smaller": use sandpaper to shave down the size of dipstick
Solution 2 is probably better, for obvious reasons (we don't want metal shavings down the dipstick tube.)
What do you think? This seems to be a really rare issue, and I don't understand how this can happen.
