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Well, on to business. One of possibly the most annoying things thus far on this project has been the seemingly random **** missing from it: A transmission dipstick and pop-up roof vent (not the actuating arm just the top cover).
Well, this past week I changed the oil and transmission fluid+filter. I put about 6 quarts of tranny fluid in her (out of the 11 or so that she holds) because I wasn't sure how much the converter would hold.
So I rolled down to my friendly neighborhood Chevy dealer and requested a replacement dipstick. I went through the regular hoop-la you might expect. "What year is your vehicle?"; 1986, "Well I don't know if we can get parts for that.", "Let me get Don."
You know, there's always that guy who has worked there as long the that place has been open.
Well that's the guy that came out and he was able to get the dipstick ordered for me. He says: "Well, we'll have to get that from vintage parts." as if I have much of a choice.
I gotta say, of all the **** I've worked on in my life, this is the first time a dipstick (for the transmission no less) has been missing in action.
44.64 and a couple of days later I have my "new" dipstick in hand.
