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wbecker319(at)hotmail.com
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Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2014 1:01 pm Post subject: Loose dipstick tube

The reason for safety wire in both directions is:



When you check the oil, over time, when you screw the dipstick back in 

you are tightening the dipstick tube, compressing the gasket more than 

it was when you installed it.



After doing this over and over the tube is loose due to the compressed 

gasket. When the tube is properly installed and safetyed in both 

directions it stay exactly as it was when it was installed, and never 

gets over torqued and eventual over compressed. The

backward safety prevent over torquing when checking the oil, which 

compresses the gasket and causes it to become loose. 



I have done this for for years and it works. I have no loose dipstick tubes

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