Winner winner. Fellow over on another board with skills is manufacturing a dipstick that blows the $220 B&M one out of the water. This one is purpose built, calibrated, and pre-marked specifically for this truck. B&M requires that you figure out where and how to mark their stick. Still a pretty pricey upgrade (No more than the B&M though), but worth it to those of us that do regular D&F's..
Same place the factory stick goes, you just remove it and replace with this one.
I wonder if in other markets, like the Middle East, they still have the dipstick.
Allegedly the folks down under get them, but I haven't been able to confirm that, short of calling a dealer down there, which I didn't really want to do.
I think it was your post I read just recently about adding that one. I looked around pretty hard at one point for some way to do it, but came up short, and now that Mike is making these, other than cost, there's no real reason to.
Just the way that particular dipstick is made. I forgot what it is from, but it is a stock piece from some older model of car that he has etched the new markings on. Given the choice he would have used one with no holes, but that wasn't available.
Fresh oil is clear with no color. Very difficult to see in regular daylight.
