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by Sloth13 on July 30th, 2009
You can often unbolt the dipstick tube from the engine and the fish the broken dipstick out.
by DukeG on February 7th, 2009
Get a new dipstick at a junkyard and dont worry about it. The filter will keep it from doing anyharm. If its a small piece it will comeout when you drain the oil, If its a larger piece you might have to drop the oil pain to get it out, But why bother. It wont hurt anything,
by jaygee on August 6th, 2009
Try a needle nose plyer to grab the piece if you can see it. If you cannot see it some dip stick tubes can be unbolyed and you may be able to reach it then.
by robert on September 16th, 2009
go 2 the part store and buy a small round magnet that will fit down the dipstick hole and u should b able 2 pull it out.
by csimme01 and Ninja Cooper UNMASKED on February 7th, 2009
you might be able to get the broken piece out using a small magnet on a telescoping rod. You should be able to find the magnet at an auto parts store.
by TheTank on February 7th, 2009
If the top just broke off sometimes you can put a screw through the remaining plastic in the top and pull the rest out. If it broke completely and fell into your oil pan don't panic, the chances of it actually coming into contact with anything and hurting it are not likely but i would get it fixed ASAP just in case which would require droppping the oil pan (usually not a hard thing to do).
by hazmat on January 2nd, 2009
what you don't have a "oiltank"you have a oilpan at the bottom of the motor, and if your dipstick has fractured replace it, if ti broke off drop the oilpan and retrieve the pieces before they do damage to your motor
by Mink90 on January 2nd, 2009
Remove the oil pan to retrieve the broken dipstick and replace it with an unbroken one.
by bagicide stayed 10 months too long on January 2nd, 2009
by my name goes here on December 8th, 2008
take it some where to have the tank removed and buy a new dipstick
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