How does one get a broken dip stick out of the engine? The handle has broken and it’s about eight centimeters in the dip stick holder hole. It’s got part of the plastic dip stick handle (yellow) showing if one looks with a flashlight.

You can try heating up a screw and poke the hot screw into what’s left of the plastic handle. Let everything cool off, and try pulling out the screw along with the dip stick with a pair of pliers. If that doesn’t work, then the dip stick tube will have to be removed from the engine to remove the dip…

If you have tried reaching it with needle nose pliers, and that didn’t work I have a method that will work. Get a tubing cutter (the kind with a little cutting wheel and rollers, like you use to cut brake line) and cut the dipstick tube below the point where the stick is broken. Once the dipstick …

Try making a hook with a coat hanger or other stiff wire and try to hook the plastic handle with it.

I’m not sure if it’d work, but they sell kits that are supposed to extract oil from the top of the engine rather than dripping from the oil pan. If you can find one that’ll suck it from the dipstick hole, you may be able to suck it out with that.

personally I would use a skewer and dental floss. Make a loop over the flat end of the skewer. push the loop of floss down the tube below the plastic bit leftover. Try to wrap the floss a couple of times around the lost dip stick below the plastic part. Remove skewer and rotate each end of the floss…

For crying out loud, just listen to tester, just remove the dipstick tube, remove the broken dipstick, put the tube back in, and get a new dipstick. JB Weld indeed!

Removing the dipstick tube to get the broken dipstick out is by far the best way to solve this problem, however, on some cars you have to remove an exhaust manifold or some of the belt driven accessories to get to the bolt or bolts which secure the dipstick to the engine. I’m not one to stick thing…

Thanks, Yes, you seem to have an answer. I wasn’t sure if the tube comes off and goes back on. That seems reasonable. I’ll try it tomorrow. I’m not sure how to grab it firmly and not put a kink in it. It is a hollow tube. Pliers should do it. If I need to grab it real hard maybe I’ll put a m…

Dip Stick broken

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mark9207 September 13, 2010, 3:28am 11

Once the bracket holding the tube onto the engine is removed, it should come out with a little gentle persuasion. If it doesn’t, and all else fails, you can use my suggestion. It really is sort of an ‘if all else fails’ kind of suggestion, but it will work.

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