oil dip stick...super C

Is there such a thing as a dip stick conversion to replace the never ending drips from the original set-up to check oil levels. I am ready to go to the junk yard and get a used oil pan and modify mine. I was ready and my wife said surely someone has already done. So, is she rite again?

Probably, it has been done on H's and M's. But to those of us who grew up with those tractors the drips are what we have always done and most of us don't even think about it.

I've never seen one leak. Why don't you take it apart and see what's wrong with it? No, your wife is not right. You were probably in her way and she just told you anything just to get you the he!! out of the house.

If you mean you can't stop it from dripping, new ones are available from several sources.

Pilot Knob Restorations Has new ones for 13.25 I replaced mine no more drip

Forgot to mention I put 2-new ones from Rice 2-months ago and one of them has leaked from the beginning. Must have been made in china.

Take it off and clean it up there is a reason its leaking. The dipstick is sometimes on ebay but you wont like the price just clean yours up or get a new one.

Why would you put up with a defective BRAND NEW product? Send it back and demand a replacement. Odds are they will send you a new one no questions asked if you're nice about it.

They're not supposed to leak.

The only dipstick option is to tear down the block and have it machined for a dipstick from a power unit or 240.

The reason tractors of that era had 2 check plugs for checking the oil was because the majority of tractors of that era were designed to burn distillate or kerosene. Neither distillate or kersene burns away cleanly and the leftover byproduct ends up contaminating the engine oil. Standard practice of that time was for every so many hours of burning distallate or kersene was to let the tractor sit overnight which allowed the oil to settle to the bottom and the lighter distillate/Kersene contaminates to rise to the top. Pull the bottom check plug to drain the contaminates off which had risen to the top. Then top off with one new quart of oil. This was much cheaper than full oil changes for depression era farmers.

Gasoline tractors shared the same factory tooling even though this unique feature is not needed on them since gasoline burns away cleanly in comparison to distillate or Kersene.

IH, Case, and JD all used similar check plugs for this reason on their multiple fuel models. Once gasoline became the primary fuel in the early to mid 1950's then you see the addition of the dipstick as by the mid 1950's tractors were either gasoline or diesel (distallate and kersosene were pretty much obsolete by then or sold in such small numbers to no longer be relevant).