oil dipstick handle color
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What is correct for a 69 440HP? Recall reading repeatedly that the tube was silver CAD color and the dipstick handle was engine color. However, from the A12 reunion the Badalason dipstick handle on his 440-6 was black......leading me to believe that it should be black and the tube a silver CAD type color.....
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Re: oil dipstick handle color
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bare steel tube with a black indicator is the general accepted rule for a 1969
Bill, it's not an accepted rule that I know of? Only for A12's. All other 383/440 motors, the handle is engine color. I don't know why but it's the way it was. I've owned when new and owned and seen many survivors. I would not hesitate to paint the handle engine color. I'm not 100% sure about the dipstick tube but if it had any paint on the tube, it was more like overspray.
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Re: oil dipstick handle color
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Not a big block but a 73 340 I went with the Engine Color.
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1966 Charger 383 4 speed (Black with Red interior)
1973 Cuda 340 4 speed (Lemontwist)
1972 Corvette
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Re: oil dipstick handle color
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Not a big block but a 73 340 I went with the Engine Color.
I've got a picture of a 73 340 when it was only a few month old. It has an engine color tube and a black handle.
I've got a few pictures of 74 318's and the handle looks like it was bare...unpainted.
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ok, so would a 1969 383 4 bbl engine have a black dipstick handle as well or would that have been painted engine color?
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Re: oil dipstick handle color
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I've got a few pictures of 74 318's and the handle looks like it was bare...unpainted.
My '74 was "UNPAINTED" sorry for the mixup.
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Re: oil dipstick handle color
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Not a big block but a 73 340 I went with the Engine Color.
I've got a picture of a 73 340 when it was only a few month old. It has an engine color tube and a black handle.
I've got a few pictures of 74 318's and the handle looks like it was bare...unpainted.
Right, black on the 340 handles with tube painted
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Re: oil dipstick handle color
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ok, so would a 1969 383 4 bbl engine have a black dipstick handle as well or would that have been painted engine color?
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