dipstick and tube

Badvert65 said
Don, I have a truck pan from an 83 Ram slant 6. The dipstick tube just slides in and out of the pan and is held in place by a bracket that bolts to the motor mount. The hole in the block for a 'pasenger car' tube has a small aluminum plug tapped into it. If you look at this pic, you can see a 'dimple' in the edge of the pan, where the gasket goes, that shows where the block mounted dipstick tube would be. I don't think the block mounted dipstick will work with that pan. If you find a truck in a salvage yard, you should be able to get the tube out by just unbolting it from the engine mount and pulling.
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Yup I understand that, what I show above is the truck pan with the tube removed, it just took me more effort to remove from the pan than usual, from a past owner "modification". That's all. If I get me a tube from somewhere I should be good.
Worst case my truck still runs, with it's original slant 6, still has it's pan and tube, I can rob those but I wasn't wanting to break the pan seal, keep it intact to keep it clean since I don't know what will become of the original engine yet. I guess it wouldn't be bad just to rob the dipstick and tube out of it for now.
That's why I found a 2nd pan for my new motor. I just didn't know it had an issue when I got it.
I do have the car pan and pickup that I could put onto the old motor when it comes out just to keep the crap out of it for the time being. But now that I got that stub out of my "new" pan and it is usable again, I won't have to.
I know about the plug in the other tube hole in the block. That's what I was gonna do with it anyway.
And Rusty, fixing the old tube from this pan would been not possible.