[DML] Re: Auto Tranny Dip Stick

["Harold McElraft" <hmcelraft@xxxxxxx>]

The flat piece with the measurements must be missing from your dip-
stick. That is the length of the coil flex part of my dip-stick but 
I have an additional piece at the bottom showing all the lines for 
hot, cold, etc. If you look in the parts manual 4-5-2 110134, you 
can sort of see the piece at the end.

In any event - when mine is hot (175 degrees F) the fluid is about 
an inch up on the coil. No bubbles indicating over full, etc. and no 
slipping. The fluid can really heat up if you work the converter - 
I've had it to 200 degrees. The fluid can really expand at those 
temps and cause an over full condition - However, so far I have not 
seen such a condition with my trans. So, I must be pretty close. 

BTW, if you clean and dry off the stick with brake clean you can 
read the fluid measure fairly well in a bright light at an angle.

Harold McElraft - 3354


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, doctorDHD@xxxx wrote:
> Harold,
> 
> Thank you for that measurement.  Mine is 26 and 3/8 inches from 
the edge of 
> the red plastic handle that seats on the fill tube to the tip of 
the "wire".  
> There are no marking on my stick and it is made out of a coiled 
metal material 
> like the outside metal sheath of a release cable of some sort.  
The coils of 
> the stick make it more difficult to see the level of the oil and 
the oil 
> quickly dissipates into the groves of the coil making a reading 
even more difficult.
> 
> Is yours a standard flat metal strip?
> 
> If we are measuring from the same reference point then mine must 
be too short.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Dave & 6530
> 
> 
> Message: 19
>    Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 13:38:02 -0000
>    From: "Harold McElraft" <hmcelraft@xxxx>
> Subject: Re: Auto Tranny Dip Stick
> 
> This will be a great exercise. I have often thought the auto dip 
> stick was probably not accurate.
> 
> Mine is 26 3/4 inches from the red plastic handle to the full-hot 
> line. I use that line as the full-cold line. Years ago when I 
> believed the full hot line the trans would sometimes slip when 
cold 
> and show air bubbles in the fluid.
> 
> Harold McElraft - 3354
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]




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