1.6 diesel engine Lack of Dip Stick!

[Bert2]

I own a 1983 1.6 diesel RHD Manual converted van which I am in the process of doing up, I have a problem I can not find the dip stick! most pictures I have found show a dip stick that starts mid engine and bends over the top to the rear, or some have a dip stick in the filler tube. I have neither. I have found a blanked drilling in the block but this seems to have been there from manufacture and there seem to be no drilling on the sump. Does anyone have any ideas?

[peasant]

Early diesels had the dipstick (orange plastic!) in the filler tube and a special filler tube cap with a hole in the middle for said dipstick. Don't know if they can be got anywhere.

Reason why many of them have been exchanged for a normal cap (sans dipstick) is that ailing diesels have a tendency to relase a bit of pressure into the sump and the plastic dipstick offers no sealing powers whatsoever ...cue the oil spewing all over the place.

[leroiandjayne]

is it not behind the number plate? slap my wrists but i know nowt bout these buses before 87!

[Mushr00m]

Mine's behind the the flip number plate, but it's not diesel!

No harm in flipping down the cover the number plate is on &
having a peek.