A maintenance tip you will like

[FordFleeter]

Hello fellow Ford owners,
I recently had a strange problem occur. I was driving my 2001 F350 Super-Duty with 144000 miles on it, hauling a new travel trailer to a dealer. I had about a 40-50 mph headwind and needless to say, I was working the truck to just keep it around 50 mph. When I arrived at the dealership (680 miles one way), I found oil residue on the front of the trailer. Then after investigating, I found the entire underside of the truck splattered with oil. I checked my oil level and it was 2 qts low. I added the oil and looked for any possible leak. I found nothing. I drove the truck back home an had no problem. The next morning I found a small drip of oil on my driveway. I climbed under the truck and noticed that the oil drip had come from the dip stick assembly on the side of the oil pan. I reached up to see if it was loose and the nightmare happened. There is a big nut and it was loose and the inner portion of the assembly fell into the oil pan. I had a friend of mine that is a top mechanic with me, so we decided to drain the oil and drop the pan to retrieve the part. Not easy. After a couple of hours we had dropped the pan, about an inch. It dropped right down on the cross member that the motor mounts to. My magician/mechanic friend fished out the part and we found that the nut had stripped itself. We went to the Ford dealer and bought a new nut. Went back and my magician/mechanic Friend somehow got the inner piece in place and the new nut on it. We got the pan back in place, put in new oil and oil filter. ran the truck and the leak was fixed. My friend crawled under his truck and his nut was loose also. Since then several friends of mine have checked the nut and found it to be loose on EVERY one of them.

Please take a minute to check and see if you have a nut loose too.

[gmctrucks]

Good info for you Ford owners. I was thinking tack weld the assembley to block or J&B weld that would keep you from removing pan the nut in oil pan will not hurt a thing now that's the magic I do or the lazy way. GMC

[72'CaminoKid]

10-4....will check the bosses tuesday.... its where the oil dip stick tube meets the oil pan?

[Pantharen]

I work with a few loose nuts, and a dipstick. Is there anything to fix them

[crabtruck]

That could be taken soooo wrong .... LOL

[greasemonkey]

Yuh, that it could.

[03chevy]

LOL that is just too funny!! taken the wrong way

[Pantharen]

I didn't look back on that after I posted.. Man looking at that this morning..
uuummm, lemme just rephrase it... The guys I work with all have nuts loose, and they're dipstick reads a quart low.