Been out of town for a week, then worked, worked some more, first day off I've had to work on my truck.
Replaced oil dipstick tube (ch. 3-2, TM 9-2320-280-2).
Because it was leaking at the oil pain.
That's Freudian...
Anyway, oil pan. Took a CLOSE look and someone had wrapped self-adhering silicone tape around the joint and it had pretty much dissolved.
Dissassembled everything including getting out that one obnoxious manifold bolt, cleaning threads and finding out, there's no o-ring on the tube.
Huh? I can imagine PFC Snuffy hearing the CO say fix that drip and PFC Snuffy, wanting to get out of the motor pool RFN (that's RFQ for my friends south and east of the Potomac) 'cause it's late Friday afternoon
just takes a two inch piece of silicone tape to the joint, pulls the truck outside for the CO, who, happy with the job says GTFO of here private, it's Friday. Snuffy grabs a can of grape soda and a marlboro and didi mao's out of there, never looking back. I mean, why bother fixing it right when the HMMWVs are all due to be turned in for
disposition/sales soon anyway, right?
I'd ordered an o-ring months ago from Kascar which took several minutes to find in my stuff, and I'm glad I printed out/read the manual. I'd wondered if you could put on RTV at the joint for extra insurance.
Why yes, yes you can. Bolted everything back together including removing an adel clamp from the rocker cover and attaching it to the arm of the dipstick tube where it belonged.
Now it sits for 24 hours' insurance, then I'll put in some cooling system cleaner, run it around a bit, drain oil and cooling system, change some hoses, and that'll be most of Saturday/Sunday. I'd bought a dual oil-filter setup and it REALLY looks deceptively easy with the crow's foot wrench I bought. If not, it'll sit until next week when I get more free time.