Just removed my oil pan a few days back, and one of the steps was taking the dipstick out, well long story short the dipstick did not come out until I had the entire oil pan on the ground, and it wiggled out fairly easily.

I am working on a 2004 xc90 we just bought had a rod knock, though sump oring kit was the problem, got oil sump/oil pan off which was not fun and realized the pick up tube was clogged almost all the way with sludge, took of pickup tube and have it soaking in simple green now, one rod the bearing was...