What the ---- is the point of taking off your oil pan???
02-01-2004, 11:58 AM
#31
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Re:What the ---- is the point of taking off your oil pan???
one word.. "hacker"
is it possible to do? yes.. if you do decide to drill your pan without taking it down, put alot of grease on your bit, drill slow, and you can only use 1 bit.
I honestly would never do it, just because taking off an oil pan is pretty simple, a few 10mm nuts/bolts and its off.
Jeff
is it possible to do? yes.. if you do decide to drill your pan without taking it down, put alot of grease on your bit, drill slow, and you can only use 1 bit.
I honestly would never do it, just because taking off an oil pan is pretty simple, a few 10mm nuts/bolts and its off.
Jeff
02-01-2004, 12:07 PM
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Re:What the ---- is the point of taking off your oil pan???
^^that's what I was wondering. The only thing I could come up with is the second size bit might drop an *** load of shavings since the hole is already there? 
I dunno I still wouldn't do it. 
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02-01-2004, 02:44 PM
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Re:What the ---- is the point of taking off your oil pan???
this is a great test listen up... Go to a pet store and get some clear fish tanks tube the same diameter and size as your oil line now, take the old oil drain line off and put this one on. Next change your oil so it's new, start your car up and get a brite flashlight. Look at the tube that drains the oil from the turbo to the oil pan, use the flashlight and check out all the little sparkles in that knew oil you just put in . those are metal shavings, or little metal particals that your engine deals with all the time. Everybody has them just some more than others. Now i dissagree on drilling the oil pan without taking it off the car, but the way you can do it and with very very minimul metal shavings is to just use a punch for the hole then take a tap a the specific size and smother it in some type of grease and use the tap slowly. HINT : go to sears and buy the magnetic tool that craftsman makes to magnetise and demagnetis screwdrivers. You can use this on taps also, if you do this none of the shavings will get in the oil pan because it will be magnetised and have grease on it... I work at a turbo shop and sometimes we do it this way and other times the oil pan is already off. It works if you do it right... Hopefully this helps somebody
02-02-2004, 12:23 AM
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Re:What the ---- is the point of taking off your oil pan???
You don't have to take the pan off nor do you have to drill.
in the Mustang (and camaro) world, the pan is a double hump design and the motor would have to be removed to remove the pan.
Plenty (and I do mean plenty) have done it per Vortech and haven't had issue the first. I've done it that way but now I use an alterate method.
I take a hardened nail and punch it through the pan. I then enlarge the hole with a 1/4" socket extension, followed by a 3/8", followed by a 1/2". I then weld a 1/2" pipe bung to the pan.
By simply "punching" the pan and widening the opening I have no shavings what so ever and a nice neat opening, all without removing the pan.
in the Mustang (and camaro) world, the pan is a double hump design and the motor would have to be removed to remove the pan.
Plenty (and I do mean plenty) have done it per Vortech and haven't had issue the first. I've done it that way but now I use an alterate method.
I take a hardened nail and punch it through the pan. I then enlarge the hole with a 1/4" socket extension, followed by a 3/8", followed by a 1/2". I then weld a 1/2" pipe bung to the pan.
By simply "punching" the pan and widening the opening I have no shavings what so ever and a nice neat opening, all without removing the pan.
