Disclaimer: When I sober up tomorrow I’ll realize how completely stupid this is or how...
Today I broke my dipstick. No you nasty thinkin monkeys I really did
So on interweb searching for a new jimmY, It reminded me this isn’t first time I had to do this, but
years ago I once owned a manual car that had a dipstick to check the fluid level. Except it was missing. I sought out JY, parts store, trans shops and google. Every person thought I was more backwoods bat E36 M3 stupid hill cracker then the next. Anyways
Tonight’s 1,000,000 point pointless game is Name that diptick? What manual trans equipped car had this???
SVreX
MegaDork
9/28/19 8:33 p.m.
Can’t you adapt a dipstick from something else?
Find one that fits the hole. Cut the stick to the same length as the old one with a zip wheel. Do an oil change, and put in an accurate measured quantity of oil.
Clean the dipstick, install, and remove. The level of the oil on the stick is the “full” mark. Cut a small notch in the edge of the dipstick at that point with the zip wheel, and use the notch as “full” reference in the future
Voila!
In reply to SVreX :
The oil dipstick for ZX2 is already on order
the trans dipstick is for something else that doesn’t exist anymore..
and for other responses. No no and no
Manual trans with a dipstick equals MGA or big Austin Healey. And you reach them through a hole in the tunnel under the dash.
I don't understand...it's your car, but you don't know what dipstick it takes?
ah thought it would be Ford. Whilst I've had it pointed out to me that someones Chevy truck had a rusted dipstick tube I personally have only seen it on the SVTf. I still to this day find it a worse crime than the Mazda 6 subframe rot we've covered on here too. 
stuart in mn said:
I don't understand...it's your car, but you don't know what dipstick it takes?
The current broken dipstick isn't the issue. He wants us to play a guessing game as to what the other car was. To which I have no berking clur but I'm curious.
Subscriber-unavailabile said:
Disclaimer: When I sober up tomorrow I’ll realize how completely stupid this is or how...
Today I broke my dipstick. No you nasty thinkin monkeys I really did
So on interweb searching for a new jimmY, It reminded me this isn’t first time I had to do this, but
years ago I once owned a manual car that had a dipstick to check the fluid level. Except it was missing. I sought out JY, parts store, trans shops and google. Every person thought I was more backwoods bat E36 M3 stupid hill cracker then the next. Anyways
Tonight’s 1,000,000 point pointless game is Name that diptick? What manual trans equipped car had this???
It was either a Subaru or a Saturn.
Curtis
UltimaDork
9/29/19 1:05 p.m.
Too easy... LT1 F-body. 94-97 Camaro/Firechicken
TurnerX19 said:
Manual trans with a dipstick equals MGA or big Austin Healey. And you reach them through a hole in the tunnel under the dash.
Also Triumph TR2s and early TR3s.
In reply to Curtis :
Last time I touched one of those transmissions it didn't have one. It was in a 92 Camaro behind a 2 piece rear main 383 though. I suppose it could have been thrown away and plugged.
Good guess but still nothing. Here’s a hint it was a 4 speed
FOUR speed with a dipstick?
I'm wondering if it's something odd like a SAAB. This is conjecture, not a guess, so it doesn't count. The only manual trans cars I'd ever been aware of with dipsticks were Subarus (which sometimes had TWO dipsticks for the trans) and Saturns.
In reply to Knurled. :
Yep manual 4 speed with a jimmy tube
And go figure no has a dipstick in stock! And it’s $20, figure for old turd they’d just give away parts for free
Knurled. said:
FOUR speed with a dipstick?
I'm wondering if it's something odd like a SAAB. This is conjecture, not a guess, so it doesn't count. The only manual trans cars I'd ever been aware of with dipsticks were Subarus (which sometimes had TWO dipsticks for the trans) and Saturns.
older saabs had Transmission dipticks too. Rather a good idea, if you ask me.
Curtis
UltimaDork
9/29/19 9:19 p.m.
Wait.... totally confused. That broken dipstick clearly says "engine oil." Whatever manual trans it is, the "engine oil" dipstick wasn't an original part.
I am with Mad_Machine, both of my older SAAB 900's had trans dipsticks so I would guess the older 99's with the 4 speed had them also.
NickD
PowerDork
9/30/19 12:51 p.m.
Curtis said:
Wait.... totally confused. That broken dipstick clearly says "engine oil." Whatever manual trans it is, the "engine oil" dipstick wasn't an original part.
The broken engine oil dipstick is 100% unrelated to what vehicle we are guessing. He broke the engine dipstick in one car, and that got him thinking about the mystery vehicle that he owned at one point with the gearbox dipstick that we are all guessing.
In reply to NickD :
Oddly enough the trans in question called for 5w-30 oil
NickD
PowerDork
9/30/19 2:28 p.m.
In reply to Subscriber-unavailabile :
Would said car go three hundred hectares on a single tank of kerosene?
