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Subject:Re: Dipstick Popping Out / Oil Spray on Hatch
From:phil cain
Date:Thu, 31 Jul 2003 07:24:53 -0700

I would do a compression test it sounds like you have
a bad case of blowby on the rings you may have some
rings stuck or broken. Phil
--- DaBomb <dabomb@TANJABARNES.COM> wrote:
> It's me, stressing out in Los Angeles, and hoping
> the list can help.
> I got an engine rebuild in January on my '89 GL.
> Now here's the deal:
>
> My dipstick keeps popping out.  Then, the other day
> after coming home off
> the the freeway I had an oil spray all over my rear
> hatch when I got home.
> **Yet the dipstick was intact.**  There was an oil
> leak over night beneath
> the filler tube, however
>

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