Got it before Roger. mini IED disguised as a car. Had no plans to
weld in place. Too hard to crawl under with a rig. Since the new pan
is on its way, I am taking old off and bench welding by proxy (B-i-L).
We will then fabricate a skid plate to reduce the opportunity to
destroy more pans.
On Sunday, February 12, 2006, at 08:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
<<Now what sort of fun will that be!?! Think of the jolly good time
the
local firefighters will have when the accumulated layers of oil and
muck go up in
flames. You would deprive them of the enjoyment of hosing off my
car?>>
You miss the point entirely. Anyone putting a torch to a closed
container
containing oil residue and fumes from same is a fool. It's what's
inside, not
outside.
Lo, these many years ago I owned an Alfa Giulietta Spyder. Red. A
mistake in
more than one way. One day while pootling along in the four month old
car, I
drove across a section of road that had dropped six inches at an angle
across
the road. The idiots who "repaired" it simply slopped some asphalt
over the
exposed dirt which created a six-inch diagonal cliff. While passing
over this
fault, the steel oil pan of the aforementioned car contacted the
pavement,
cracking it and causing a bit of a seepage. I took the car to a local
Alfa guy for
repair and he decided to weld up the little crack after draining the
oil. Soon
after commencing the repair, as he was lying under the elevated
machine, a
small bang was heard followed by the fastest exit from under a car I
had ever
seen by a man in coveralls with no eyebrows. The oil fumes in the pan
had of
course exploded, blowing out the pan gasket pretty much all around.
Not to mention
the gasket under the U-shaped cam cover on top of the four-cylinder
twin-cam
engine. He said then he thought it might be an idea to remove the oil
pan and
repair it on the bench.
Get it now?
RLE/Seattle
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1995 E300D - Cleo
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