Couple of very quick G60 questions

[mr.brown 0]

Do G60s have a dipstick with a flat blade-like profile or a round one?

 

And is the breather (press. reg. valve) always flat or did earlier cars come with a mk2 Golf style round one?

 

Grateful for any assisitance.

[W3RKD 0]

Yes the dipsticks the flat 88- style.

 

And the corrados/golfs had the square breather and the rallyes had the round one.

[mr.brown 0]

Cheers Darren. Looks like I have a dodgy dipstick tube then.

 

I have the flat style dipstick but it won't go through. It doesn;t seem like there's a blockage - if I blow down the dipstick tube, air comes out the breather hole (engine is in garage btw).

 

How easy is it to replace the whole tube?

[W3RKD 0]

The tubes just press in . Not very hard to change at all

[Henny 0]

mr.brown, the plastic bit on the top just pulls off, but it will probably break and need some careful surgery to remove it from the dip-stick tube. The metal part of the tube is a push fit (pushed HARD!) into the block... you should be able to pull it out if you can get a good enough grip on it without damaging it... 8)

 

Oh, and some of the very early euro corrados also had the round breather... Kongo's one did... 8)

[Tempest 0]

Oh, and some of the very early euro corrados also had the round breather... K

 

As do the 1990 US-spec G60s like mine :-)

 

Tempest