Saturday April 22, 2023 Guerneville CA.
Van work
The part I’d been waiting to arrive for the van finally showed up yesterday. It’s a new oil dip stick and tube. My old one was a bit too small and leaked oil some.
I got the covers off the engine so I could work on it.
The new oil tube has to be installed down in all that.
Not so easy
I thought this would be an easy job but when I tried to put the new oil tube into the engine hole where it goes, it was just a tad too large and wouldn’t go into the hole in the engine.
My only option was to sand and file the new tube down a few thousandths of an inch. It was a tedious task with much checking to see if it fits and file some more. I also had to bend the tube just right to fit the van type installation, but I got it eventually.
That all took a lot longer than I thought it would, so I canceled the work I was going to do up in the forest and sat around chair hopping around the yard for the rest of the day.
Column shifter
Just before dark, I did have a look at the van’s column shifter as it’s been a little bit on the sticky side lately and is a bit hard to shift. I could see where it was sticking but I couldn’t see much I could do without taking it all apart, except to try oiling it up, so I put some 30 weight oil on it. It does seem a bit better, but the test will be when it gets used again.
Nice day.