fixing oil pan while still in car

Just bite the bullet...take it off get it welded after it's been cleaned well and replace it. Do you really want to worry about a cheap patch job failing while you are on the road. It won't fail in your driveway. Trust me. Hopefully you will notice the low oil pressure before it blows up and throws a rod. I'm not that lucky. Do you feel lucky?

 

I had a crappy little ranger that the pan rotted out on.I would put it on ramps let it drain the oil for the night,then rough it up with sandpaper and clean with brakecleaner'dont weld'then coated it with layers of j.b weld then put a light bulb under for it for the evening.That would last a little longer than a year.Lookin back I should of just pulled the motor and changed the pan.

 

Don't know if it'll work on your application, but there are a couple tricks you can try to get the pan out with the engine in car. Take off the dizzy and anything else that might hit and unbolt the engine mounts but not the trans mount. Lift the engine as far as you can without breaking anything and slide a chunk of 2x4 or 4x4 wood between the engine mounts and the frame. Unbolt the pan and drop it as far as you can. Get a wrench between the pan and block and remove the bolt and oil pickup tube, then slide the pan out. It might work, it might not, but IMHO welding a pan in car is a bad idea, too much of a chance of fire or explosion.

 

Watched a guy who worked next to me blow up a towncar. Big fire and lot of damage... but he deserved it. Just be careful if you do it

 

Pull the pan and fix it right. Lippy

 

take the time and take it out and fix it right !

 

Yeah, me too. I always pull the plug and fill cap, blow air up through the drain hole for a while, and still usually get a little WHOOF. I do always stand back and stick the torch in the drain hole first tho. I don't recommend this, just saying how I used to do it. There's a lot of good quick set epoxy out there now.

 

Don't use oxy. A family friend did, put the rocker covers through the roof of the garage and made more mess than a fire cracker up rabbits ass!

 

.......Why don't you just buy a new oil pan........it will solve your problem.without a fire or bad weld job......

 

I just had a thought. Why not just run some inert gas into the drain plug hole and weld away? I've done it on fuel tanks before.

 

NO NO NO NO NO. When it looks like a duck, Walks like a duck, smells like a duck, IT IS A DUCK.

 

Seal all, come in a yellow tube.I used this to fix a leaking gas tank.Tank was still dripping when applied. once it stopped leaking , then covered with jb weld

 

the inert gas idea is pretty good. i have seen it done several time with no failures or explosions. one thing is to put a drop light close as you can to hole to warm it up and get oil away from the area. i would not be afraid to run a good braze job, it won't fail. i have seen a lot of brazed pans that never fail. true it's easier to do it off the block not layin on yer back.