2F Dipstick Tube Removal

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Got my engine rebuilt and back home. Noticed the tube is bent and cracked.
How do I get it out? Its cracked at the back of the block.
Can I drive it out from the oil pan side?
Thanks,
Joel
 
If the oil pan is off, driving it out from the inside is the easiest. If they are snapped off flush with the block I will usually run the closest tap size (I think 3/8"?) and tap a few threads into it, put a bolt in and slide hammer out. They come out pretty easily.
 
If the oil pan is off, driving it out from the inside is the easiest. If they are snapped off flush with the block I will usually run the closest tap size (I think 3/8"?) and tap a few threads into it, put a bolt in and slide hammer out. They come out pretty easily.
Thanks for the quick reply!
 
I think on a lot of vehicles those are press fit. I haven't inspected the 2F dipstick tube that closesly but now I'm curious. If it's press fit, you could heat the surrounding block with a torch and spray the tube with a can of compressed air - maybe it will slide out.

Funny story, back around 2010 or so when I was married to my ex-wife, I bought a first gen Honda CRV for her to drive. We were young and broke and it took a lot for me to plunk down 30 $100 bills to buy it. The seller said her ex-husband had done all sorts of work on it and I just said "yeah, ok, that sounds great!" About a week later my ex wife is driving it on the highway and calls me to say there's smoke billowing out from under the hood. Midway through the phone call she says "I heard a bang and now the gas pedal doesn't work!"

The dipstick tube had fallen out, released all the oil, the engine seized, and it sent a rod through the block - in a matter of two minutes. I still have a chunk of it around somewhere. All that cash down the tubes in a week, I was devastated. That segued into my first experience leasing, which I will never do again.
 
Measure the height of the old tube before removing it……
There's a machined step in the block where the tube goes so it bottoms out to avoid this concern.
 

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