Ok so I'm driving home from getting tuned, I get home and pop the hood to look at the header and I notice the engine compartment is FULL of oil! I'm thinkin I blew the motor or something! To my shock... THE ******* DIPSTICK POPPED OUT!!! WTF GM CAN"T YOU DESIGN A CAR TO KEEP ITS DIPSTICK IN!!!???!!!?? I don't know how much oil came out, but I'm sure if I had driven the car much further the motor would have seized

 

You arent the first person this has happened to.

 

Wow! That sucks! Now we're going to have to come up with a dipstick mod! Would a thicker O-ring on the dipstick keep it in the tube better? <=No pun intended!

 

That is so fucked up! I would sue them into oblivion if they didn't cover my car under warrenty regardless of mods!

 

Yeah I think a bigger O-ring would work. I'm pissed though! We have to fix what those idiots at GM couldn't think of them selves!

 

Do a search, you aren't the first. Too much crankcass pressure...

 

glad I read this...gonna check mine make sure its ok.

 

mine did that once a few months ago... but I think it was more due to wheel hop, since it hasn't happened again.... two guys around here had that happen last week and ended up having holes in the pistons in cyl #4...

 

is the caused by a pulley that is very small ie, 2.5-2.6?

 

We were done tuning so I wasn't hitting any boost. I was on my way home, just cruising in vaccum. I also checked under the hood before I left for home and the dip stick was in. It popped out at some point on the way home. Now I'm terrified to drive my car!

 

that is not a good sign my friend... I"m sorry to say that... but if I were you I'd do a leakdown and compression test asap....

 

that is bullshit, if something like that happens to me and screws up my motor id make sure gm fixed it and some... if they wouldnt id take pics and post it everywhere... newspapers, internet, flyers etc. hahaha

 

just remember :
#1 are pcv system can only handle so much boost stock (even says in the build book)
#2 YOUR CAR IS MODIFIED BEYOND STOCK LEVELS.. car is not meant for that not covered by gm
#3 running this type of power with no monitoring device I/e wideband/aeroforce is deadly for your motor.

 

What if we drilled out the pcv opening to allow more air through?

 

it sounds like gm couldnt keep in in the whole

jk

but in all seriousness that sucks i think they need to do a recall on all the cobalt ss/sc's on there wheel hope, clutch slipping, dipsticks, trannies, superchargers and what ever else. and put us all in the new cameros when they come out. its nice to dream isnt it. or atleast give us our money back so we can get a different car.

 

i like my car! I don't want a different one! I don't think I could find another car that was as fast as mine AND get 30.9 mpg!!!

 

GM did that in the build book in one of the steps. I think they pulled the valve cover off, cut the stock tube off, drilled the hole bigger, screwed in a barbed fitting, and put a filter on there. A catch can wouldn't be a bad idea either.

 

maybe that should be my next mod?

 

Catch can is the next thing for me over here... probably do that friday

 

Anyone with the build book know what boost level is considered unsafe with the stock setup? Also, whenever any of you vets put a catch can on, might not be a bad idea to make it a how-to for everyone else. Take the questions out of the equation, if you know what I mean.

 

Thats what I did when I installed my HE.

 

happened to me one cold night when i had the 2.6 pulley on. luckily no oil came out.

called blow by

zip ties FTW

 

Easy day. Pull off the hose from the backside of the camcover going to the intake tube. Mount catch-can where desired. Run hose from back of cam-cover to catch-can, and run another hose from catch-can to the intake. Done!

If I had a catch can myself I would have taken pictures, but I don't and my car is thousands of miles away. Hopefully that works for now though.

 

I changed my oil today, and my dipstick was fine(woohoo stock pulley!)

 

Nope. It happened to me at about 6,000rpms during my 1st of 3 dyno pulls.
There were drops of oil on my valve cover. I though I blew the motor and then come to find out the freaking dipstick poped out. It hasn't happened since. I just don't get it.