The Oil Pan Thread

[Morty999]

[JDMVIP]

No oil pans yet, but everything under the Aristo is scraped. If I ever find a jack strong enough to lift it up I'll snap some pics,

[H_Vatn]

oilpan on the e24 635 i had

[8_UR_AWD]

the pan on my crx isnt doing to hot either... lol ill have to snap some shots

[Knox]

Ended up not breaking the pan but mushrooming it up and breaking the cast aluminum oil sump.

(I'll post up pictures of the pan and the sump later tonight.)

Well it took longer then one night but here they are...

[jpod999]

Cracked my E30s pan through my skidplate a couple of weeks ago. I have a better skidplate now.

[stikrz]

it shouldn't, slam your shit. drive smart, if your roads are that shitty run a larger profile tire and leave the dope wheels in the grange for shows, and get a skid plate, and carry a extra oil pan, tools to change it, jack and extra oil. and get a oil pressure gauge. that way when you smash your pan or bend it enough to block the pickup you know.

While I have the tools to change a pan all the time anyway (when you DD a 24 year old car tools are a must!) everything else sounds like too much for a DD lowered car. But I guess if you don't carry kids around all the time it's no biggie! In other news, I smacked the hell outta my pan not long ago because I went 45 through a hood (yeah, I know) and didn't see the DIP sign, and the whole front end took a dive into a dip in the road. It just scuffed up my front subframe and oil pan. Had my pan been the original aluminum type it would have been done. I love my steel pan!

[holminen]

On my Jetta..

[Knox]

Ended up not breaking the pan but mushrooming it up and breaking the cast aluminum oil sump.

(I'll post up pictures of the pan and the sump later tonight.)

[Minty_Fresh]

This thread scares me and my car is still stock height

it shouldn't, slam your shit. drive smart, if your roads are that shitty run a larger profile tire and leave the dope wheels in the grange for shows, and get a skid plate, and carry a extra oil pan, tools to change it, jack and extra oil. and get a oil pressure gauge. that way when you smash your pan or bend it enough to block the pickup you know.

[Neil]

This thread scares me and my car is still stock height

[lowly-pirate]

How about a transmission oil pan? I've cracked it so many times the JB Weld wouldn't work so after this time I pulled it off and had it welded. Gotta watch out for the bridge to road dips!

My oil pan has never been touched its behind the sub-frame…which gets a beating.

[MikeG]

I need to snap a pic but my buddy just cracked the oil pan on his Civic Si and hes only on tein springs I was shocked to hear he cracked it as the car isnt that low.. But sure enough it is good and cracked. I think he may have seized the motor as well Man oh man how I love my skid plate..

[Larsinnj]

Had a little incident with my E30 last summer. It's now even low, just the roads in Norway that's extremely crappy!



New one.

[I_R_5m4r7]

ive literally been driving around on a cracked pan for about 6 months. threw some jb weld on it and scraped that off too lol. good thing i live in an apartment complex so i dont have to worry about a driveway. when it stops raining ill get a pic of my parking spot. im not even that low but there is one particular speedbump in my complex that gets me almost everytime. i have learned to leave my hosue a couple minutes earlier so i can take the long way out to avoid it...lol