Same thing- i never heard anything about 408's eating dipsticks!?? Or obviously I would have done something different ! (The GREAT part of this forum) so far the similarity seems to be no windage tray and I just got a cheap chrome dipstick from Summit in a big parts order. When I looked at the dipstick on line I thought "gezz I really dislike chrome!". I never gave thoughts to buying a Milodon dipstick. Brain T brings up a great point about the dipstick having to be the same length. so here's what I've learned after the major fiasco of taking off the oil pan in the car which was previously put on while the motor was on a stand right out in front of me all clean and new and now I'm trying to get this &@$#! thing back in scraping lying on the ground and praying that doesn't leak beyond taking the intake manifold off good lord I don't even want to go on anymore. but anyways I'm using the Chrome dipstick. I just cut it off at about 6 inches and have a little spring on top of it to hold it down. but now here's the interesting thing about what Brian T was saying- I took my old 318 dipstick which was stock and more rigid to check the oil as if I didn't know I just put 8 quarts in it and its not leaking and about an inch before it's seated in the hole it stopped and hit the oil pan as it's much more rigid than the cheap Chrome summit dipstick that probably hit that spot bent over towards the motor or the crank? which brings us totally back to Brian T question- will the Milodon dipstick just go down far enough or not?last but not least there's no way I'll put the dipstick full length into my running stroker until I've had the motor out again and can research were this things going.:coffee2:
