Lift-all dip stick

Mel in KS · Feb 9, 2009

I have a 46 M Farmall. Ordered "Gage w/cap" from an outfit. Talked with them on the phone first. I understood I would get the cast screw-on cap with dip stick rod attached. What came is just the rod with washer brazed near the top. The rod appears to be about the right length and about 1/8" diameter and is obviously an old dip stick with a full mark. The rod is used which I understood. I have a cap with no rod (on the tractor which is at another location so I can't look at it now). How did the rod attach? I remember looking inside my cap and saw no obvious way a rod used to attach. Can I make it work or will I have to try and send it back and hunt for another?

Dave S. · Feb 9, 2009

The rod doesn't attach to the cap, it hangs from the washer which sits on top of the fill pipe and the cap screws on over it.

Janicholson · Feb 9, 2009

Dave S hit it on the head. it is kinda Hoke but there it is. JimN

mkirsch · Feb 9, 2009

Haven't looked at one in a while, but as I recall, the dipstick won't come out of the hole if the cap is attached to it.

Mel in KS · Feb 10, 2009

Thank you all! I would not have figured that's the way it was designed

Paul G. in Mn · Feb 10, 2009

may I ask were you got the rod? Mine is missing on my H. Thanks Paul

Nebraska Cowman · Feb 10, 2009

It's braised because originaly the rod was pinched at the top to keep it from falling through the small hole in the washer. A lot of dipsticks are lying in the bottom of the sump.

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