Anyone have their oil pan rust out? I sure did!
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Anyone have their oil pan rust out? I sure did!
The last few weeks I've noticed an oil stain appear on my driveway... Thinking its your typical leak with a seal starting to go bad, I thought I'd wait till a nice warm day to get under and clean it up.
So that day was today... wiping the oil off of the pan and the cross member, I noticed that the source of the leak wasn't very apparent. Nothing near the seal, bolts, nothing... The pan had surface rust with some bubbling, nothing I haven't really seen before.
I get a wire brush and start removing anything that was easily just brushed away... Then I noticed this "scab" of rust that kept leaking oil (slowly - but fast in terms of leaky oil)... just like if you sorta ripped a scab off your knee but it was still attached.
Unfortunately nothing is open today so I can't order in a new pan until tomorrow, then who knows how long it will take to get here!
Wonder If i can go another few days driving before it pops a huge hole out the bottom
So that day was today... wiping the oil off of the pan and the cross member, I noticed that the source of the leak wasn't very apparent. Nothing near the seal, bolts, nothing... The pan had surface rust with some bubbling, nothing I haven't really seen before.
I get a wire brush and start removing anything that was easily just brushed away... Then I noticed this "scab" of rust that kept leaking oil (slowly - but fast in terms of leaky oil)... just like if you sorta ripped a scab off your knee but it was still attached.
Unfortunately nothing is open today so I can't order in a new pan until tomorrow, then who knows how long it will take to get here!
Wonder If i can go another few days driving before it pops a huge hole out the bottom
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Thta's really strange considering how good oil is at displacing water and thereby preventing rust. Perhaps a latent defect in the pan?
Oh well, good opportunity to replace with a Greddy high flow oil pan: http://www.vividracing.com/catalog/g...3-p-23046.html
Oh well, good opportunity to replace with a Greddy high flow oil pan: http://www.vividracing.com/catalog/g...3-p-23046.html
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Just get a new one. You're going to have to do the labor anyway (or pay for the labor anyway), so you might as well install a pan that hasn't had a hard day in its life.
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