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

 

Pictures of said Pan?

 

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

 

Here it is after some "repair" work. Just wanted to see if I could stop it from leaking on the driveway for the next couple days without having to remove the oil or pan.

As you can see it doesn't work too well

 

thats nasty.

 

My God! The poor pan has cancer. I don't think it'll be worth any attempt to save this patient.

 

put her down, put the damn thing down.

 

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.