Bottom of dipstick looks melted?

[JP907ATB]

The bottom of my dip stick looks like someone put a tack weld on the end. I haven’t seen any signs of overheating. Haven’t noticed it before, is there something going on?

[Mopar1973Man]

Maybe someone laid the dipstick across the body and the positive terminal. Look close you might find a second arc mark.

[Dieselfuture]

I've sent dipstick looks like that before look like a teardrop at the bottom, may be designed that way so it slides down easier

[Me78569]

seen this as well, guessing you have an aftermarket dipstick that just has the nub at the end.

[015point9]

Nub about size of bb?  As in bb gun?  Common on older flat nose class 8's, that dip stick was 5 or 6 feet long.  Round bb keeps from getting caught up  on stuff when shoving back down hole is my opinion.  

[roadwarrior]

Mine came new with a bb sized weld ball on the end.  I thought they all looked like that.

[dripley]

9 hours ago, roadwarrior said:

Mine came new with a bb sized weld ball on the end.  I thought they all looked like that.

My 02 just comes to a rounded point. Dont know about any other years.

[Mopar1973Man]

Mine is just a tapered point. 

[dripley]

45 minutes ago, Mopar1973Man said:

Mine is just a tapered point. 

Mine is tapered but the point is round. Should have been a bit clearer.

[Mopar1973Man]

4 minutes ago, dripley said:

Mine is tapered but the point is round. Should have been a bit clearer.

Same here. Mine would the same as yours.

[2000Ram2500]

Anyone know of any differences in pans? Probably irrelevant but the dodge transmissions that mercedes pioneered for us dont come with a dipstick and you have to use a special tool. The special tool is a dipstick quite literally but its marked in milimeters and the end is a ball thats designed to sit in a pocket so to speak so that you get the same reading each time. It makes it so you can only push it in so far.

But I thought these were all limited by the dipstick tube and just stuck into the oil like most other engines.