Leaking oil pan
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Leaking oil pan
Hi! My oil pan is leaking up front. Its not leaking at the seal, its comming out of the middle of the pan. I was gonna cover it with silicon but i dont know whether or not this will hold. Any suggestions?
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From: Williamson, NY
Sounds like you have a rust hole in your oil pan. It may be hard to patch it while it is actively leaking. Perhaps some 1 minute epoxy or JB-Weld may do the trick, but you may need to drain the oil below the hole before it will work. The only problem is if there is one hole there may be others. You may want to get a new oil pan to fix it for good. Good luck.
Jim
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You may have to replace the pan gasket. At the very least, there is a front gasket-to-timing cover piece you can get as part of a water pump gasket set. You replace that portion and seal the ends with rtv. You may be better off with pulling the pan and installing a whole new gasket. Some engines involve disconnecting the motor mounts, exhaust pipe, and fan shroud, and lifting the engine up to clear the oil pump pickup.
The last one I did, I got a one piece rubber gasket (460)
Mark
The last one I did, I got a one piece rubber gasket (460)
Mark
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may be rusting from inside out...ive seen this a few times...
if your going to take the time to fix it you may as well doit right..
yank the pan and degrease the crap out of it inside and out....if theres rust wire wheel it till gone, then weld the hole up if possible and or weld a patch of steel ont eh inside
if your going to take the time to fix it you may as well doit right..
yank the pan and degrease the crap out of it inside and out....if theres rust wire wheel it till gone, then weld the hole up if possible and or weld a patch of steel ont eh inside
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I had an oil leak through the pan... I drained the oil, covered the rust hole with JB Weld, waited for that to dry, and coated that with several layers of seal-all... it's held for over a month now, with just very minor drippage, maybe one or two drops a night.
