David - I see by a later e-mail from Mike that I apparently missed a
reference somewhere, but that the implication was that the dipstick helped avoid
the
situation. I had contrived a nearly identical device when I first acquired my
Amphicar and concur that it eliminates a lot of guesswork or makes the
assertation of the fluid levels easier. Vic "Splash"' Nelson
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