i know i need to relocate the dip stick on my late model 302 to the front of the motor someone in the forum explained how to do it but i cant find the tread on it. thanks john
change the front timing cover to the old style ('65-'80something) and youll have to change the pan anyways to a front sump with the correct oil pump pick-up tube. hope this helps
you need to get a front timing cover that has the hole drilled in it to plug the dipstick into or drill your own hole... be sure to plug the old hole on the side of the block
All you've got to do is drill a 1/4" hole in the cover on the passenger's side in the boss cast at the bottom corner.
Just an idea: Why not use the "new" hole? In the "Help" section of most autoparts houses, they have chrome dipsticks (with the tube included) for not much $ at all. Drain all your oil, fill it up with the recommended quantity of oil (remembering the oil filter void), find out where the Full mark is on the new dipstick and go with that. It'd beat the heck darn out of changing out a timing cover (unless you already have the engine out). Would this not work? Is the stock pan too shallow? (I have an aftermarket deep sump on mine so I wouldn't know for sure).
i think the problem is that his late model 302 had a dual sump pan where the dipstick goes into the rear side of the block and measures the oil level in the back of the pan??
He's swapping a roller 302 into a Mav. And not using a dual sump fox pan, it won't fit the Mav. Be that as it may, using a front dipstick on a dual sump in a chassis that requires a dual sump pan ( as in a V8 Ranger, & this subject comes up frequently on the Ranger sites) gives you a false reading, the front "sump" really isn't a sump at all, it's there only to provide a space for the oilpump in the pan, the pickup tube draws from the rear sump. The oil that does collect in the front, spills over into the rear in accelleration and when the level gets high enough to run over the hill to the rear.
