I don't think "new" oil pans are very expensive either - maybe $30 or so.
brian from la verne, ca
From: Nate <vwnate1@yahoo.com>
To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2011 4:59 PM
Subject: [diesel_mercedes] Re : Oil Pan Fun
No , no corrosion anywhere on Tom's '81 W126 because he refuses to fix the oil seeps nor ever clean under the hood (it looks like a show car from the outside) so there's more oil sludge than the Exxon Valdez
dumped in the ocean , underneath it .
The metal was shiny from this recent scrape , it folded the metal over so much , it stress cracked .
I wonder if maybe the guys who polish it weekly , might have zoomed up
the ramps in the parking garage and bottomed it out ? .
Dented oil pans on Mercedes is *VERY* common ,try to find an un dented one in the scrap yard , good luck .
This one was hit *so* hard , it broke off the rubber oil intake tube so we have to order up a new one of those ASAP , I'll install it when we get the next oil pan , be it a lucky P-A-P find or a new one , Jerry sold me a brandy new one for my Coupe for $35 , maybe he's got more .
Were it my car , I'd be worried about sucking in air instead of coil during hard cornering but I think Tom's prolly O.K. there .
Tom had gone to P-A-P last week and found one that was only slightly scraped with road rash , the yard apes had dented it in 30 MM or so with the forklift so I had to dress it back out using some hardwood and my old dead blow mallet before it'd fit because Mercedes wisely has the oil dipstick tube nearly touching the bottom of the oil pan, this prevents oil fumes from spewing out the top end of the tube like on other , lesser cars . I installed it after cleaning it and the attendant 6 MM allen headed socket screws *vigerously* as Tom replaced the broken air cleaner 'T' bracket & sheared off rubber air cleaner can mounts .
-Nate
"bmwsid" Asked :
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> Did this happen because it was excessivly corroded?
> Did you have a replacment part?
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