type 3 to 1 dipstick alternatives

[hillmotorsports]

Is there a good alternative to the crap casting that holds the aluminum dipstick tube? I've had 3 now that leak around a loose tube, and when we tried to TIG weld the casting disintegrated.
Surely there is a better way...
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Rosemarie and Paul Hill
Morrisburg, Ontario

(With way more projects than spare time!)

[jason]

If you have a tig, take a steel block off and weld a steel tube to it.

[60ragtop]

Back in the day, the machine shop left my good case in the soup to long and destroyed it. The only comparable case he could find to replace it was a type 3. He drilled it for the dipstick tube like a type 1, installed the tube and dipstick. Drove that bug for years like that with no problem. Just use a steel plate to plug the hole left over from the type 3 dipstick.
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Rick
Certified Mechanic by the State of Michigan in 1977
ASA certified in 1987
Certified Hunter Wheel Alignment Master Technician 1986

[hillmotorsports]

Thanks guys.
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Rosemarie and Paul Hill
Morrisburg, Ontario

(With way more projects than spare time!)