[Huskymaniac]

Originally Posted by ensteele

My thought was that vibration was the reason that the dipstick moved out. With the o-ring being replaced, the dipstick may not be able to vibrate out, and pressure may not be increased at all. Just a thought.

Yeah, that's my hope but I am concerned that the PCV may be causing it and I was just wondering what damage that could cause. I got a good answer to that. It sounds like you think the PCV is not what causes the dipstick to pop out and it is always the o-ring plus vibration. If that is true, I would be happy to hear that. The o-ring I can replace. The PCV involves issues that I am not sure I trust myself to deal with. I depend on this car daily so I don't want to mess it up to the point where I can't drive it for several days. If I had time to go nice and slow I may feel good about something on the level of the PCV and maybe even taking the intake manifold off to get a better look at the AACV. But my next few weekends will be taken up with putting up xmas lights and coaching basketball. It would be great to just take care of the o-ring and keep an eye on the bouncy idle to see where that goes.

My son informed me today that he would like to modify cars. Looks like I may need to keep an eye out for a project. I probably should have jumped at that 1997 SVX in PA last week.