Oil pan
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Oil pan
My friend has a 2000 F250 7.3. His oil pan has rusted out. Oil is bleeding through. Ford said the motor had to come out. The job would cost $3000. Is there an easyer way to do the job? Any idea's?
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if it's bleeding and not just seeping, there would be no good way to patch them. it seems as if the oil pan is a stupid idea on these trucks. come on make them a little more thicker god! the oil pan on our '95 is rusting out, and mine had paint bubbles on it. yes they are right, the engine has to come out to get to the pan.
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I just replaced my Trans pan with the Mag-Hytec pan. Man this pan is impressive. It took two hands to hold it up to put the screws in. The stock trans pan is made much better than the stock oil pan.
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Originally Posted by strokin_it7.3
if it's bleeding and not just seeping, there would be no good way to patch them. it seems as if the oil pan is a stupid idea on these trucks. come on make them a little more thicker god! the oil pan on our '95 is rusting out, and mine had paint bubbles on it. yes they are right, the engine has to come out to get to the pan.
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wipe grease all over it before it actually rusts through.
if its already rusted through, mabye theres a technique like "bronzing" a piece of metal over the bad spot.
I never looked at the difficulty of accessing the oil pan, but my first thought is this:
1. drain oil and squirt alcohol in bung to really clean out oilpan. let dry.
2. find lead chunks or solid core lead solder and insert into the bung.
3. take a blowtorch to the bottom of the oilpan, creating a thin lead coating across the bottom.
4. when lead seeps from bad area, problem is fixed.
5. wipe oilpan in grease to prevent more rust.
This could be the worst idea ever, but like i said, i havent looked at the thing, so i'm just trying to logicalize the problem....
Mabye theres something else you could put in there without torching it, like epoxy?
dunno, just thought lead was failsafe.
if its already rusted through, mabye theres a technique like "bronzing" a piece of metal over the bad spot.
I never looked at the difficulty of accessing the oil pan, but my first thought is this:
1. drain oil and squirt alcohol in bung to really clean out oilpan. let dry.
2. find lead chunks or solid core lead solder and insert into the bung.
3. take a blowtorch to the bottom of the oilpan, creating a thin lead coating across the bottom.
4. when lead seeps from bad area, problem is fixed.
5. wipe oilpan in grease to prevent more rust.
This could be the worst idea ever, but like i said, i havent looked at the thing, so i'm just trying to logicalize the problem....
Mabye theres something else you could put in there without torching it, like epoxy?
dunno, just thought lead was failsafe.
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Originally Posted by Dually02
I just replaced my Trans pan with the Mag-Hytec pan. Man this pan is impressive. It took two hands to hold it up to put the screws in. The stock trans pan is made much better than the stock oil pan.
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NAPA sells a fuel tank patch kit that is basically a fiberglass and resin patch kit. I used it to fix my oil pan two years ago. It rusted through next to the drain plug. I completly drained the oil and then cleaned the bottom of the pan with solvent and then denatured alcohol so there was no oily residue. It takes a long time for all the oil to drain out. Waiting overnight with the oil plug out works well. Applied the patch, sanded and painted the rest with POR-15 later on and it's still holding today.
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I have decided that sanding and painting is just regular yearly maintenance on my poor oil pan 
! Last year I sanded out all bubbles , cleaned it up real nice and found more bubbles this year! So I sanded and painted again, next year I may use a rust inhibitor as well as a good coat of paint like I have done on my rear diff cover. A neighbour asked me why I was doing that, and I told him because it was built ford tough! 
! Last year I sanded out all bubbles , cleaned it up real nice and found more bubbles this year! So I sanded and painted again, next year I may use a rust inhibitor as well as a good coat of paint like I have done on my rear diff cover. A neighbour asked me why I was doing that, and I told him because it was built ford tough!
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