WTB: CA OIL PAN

[skoolymarm]

if anyone has a good condition rwd ca oil pan and wants to sellit, then im interested in buying it. mine got crushed when it got shipped and its to dinked up to fix.

if anyone has one for sale my email is [email protected]

thanx, Jovan

[r34 gtr]

those pans are pretty hard to beat up, i would check to make sure everything else is okay. my oil pan has a big dent in it but it still runs fine.. theyre really deep and the oil pickup isnt at the bottom of the pan.

im sure someone has an oil pan you can use. actually im sure theres someone who's hungry enough for cash that they'll sell you any extra they have. i say try your best to hammer it out just in case.. you can also complain to the company that sold the engine/shipping company and get them to send you one. it has been done.

- tim

[JICdrifter]

i need an oil pan badly also, someone email me at [email protected] if u have one

[float_6969]

I beat on mine with a Hammer. Stress relief and it works just fine.

[RMiller]

I did too. But it's really, really hard to do. You can bang on it all day long as hard as you can and not change anything. It makes it difficult to bang out several dents because of that metal thing whose name is escaping me, but it's not removable. I used the giant handle from my jack (my favorite tool) and banged on the top of that, which ended up working enough for my pan.

[r34 gtr]

i think the key is to get it somewhat resembling the original oil pan. as long as it is more or less the same size and doesnt have any really big holes, you should be fine.

- tim

[skoolymarm]

what about the baffles? wouldnt all that banging around with the hammer jack em up a bit?

[r34 gtr]

eh, so long as they arent way out of whack youll be fine. i would def. try to avoid hitting the baffles whenever possible though. and this oil pan is probably the most solid part of the engine, it wont be as easy to mess up as you think.

- tim

[NeedCAforS13]

there's ALOT of clearance between the pump and the pan on the CA's... none of that little dent messing up your oil flow like in an SR. That being said, I have a CA18DE rwd pan if anyone wants it. Its the same shape/size as the turbo one, just no oil return hole in it (pretty easy to solve that problem;))

Sean

[RMiller]

If you break your oil pan with a hammer, I'll give you props. I went crazy on it to give more clearance for my oil pickup, and I only pushed it out around 1 cm.

[skoolymarm]

looks like im about to bust out the hammer then.i let you guys know how it turned out.

[Trppen37]

and if thres cracks...JB Weld the sum bi0che

[redamnavit]

Quick solution for knocking out dents: Take a long 1/2 inch ratchet extension (I used a 1", but not all of us grew up on a farm where these things exist) and put a fairly large socket on the end, BACKWARDS. Viola, you have a nice meaty flat hammer surface on the end of a rod. Place on individual dents and whack away.

Note: this pretty much ruins the end of the extension that you're hammering if you don't pad it somehow.