This one may go down in history as a real bonehead play!  Someway lost my dipstick. Remember checking the oil when I had the cowling off, put the cowling on, taxi up and down runway and parked airplane for the night. Went out to fly the next morning and coolant dropping out of exit of cowling. Removed cowling and found suspect leak point. Small hose going to pressure transducer had a short barb and the shrink clamp was not completely up on barb. Replaced with narrow mechanical clamp and ran the engine up with cowling off to pressurize system. Several neighbors observing. One said on shutdown , where is your dipstick and I replied from cockpit that it was on the right side middle of engine. His response was yes I see the tube, but where is the dipstick. Duh??

Junk yard will not sell just a dipstick, so hopefully one of you rotorheads who has torn down several engines will have a spare dipstick that I can buy.

Please email me at  jbker@juno.com or call my cell  772 708 0093

thanks, Bernie Kerr