Removing the oil pan without pulling the engine is not possible. There is a side-mounted "tank" (I can't think of the word right now) bolted to the passenger side of the oil pan, which serves to increase the volume of oil in the pan. If you remove that "tank", there will be a very small opening that would give you limited access to the inside of the pan. I think the opening would be about an inch high and a few inches long? Might allow you to clean the inside of the pan (flush out the drain hole) if you do any drilling and tapping.
In your situation, it's probably best to leave the patch alone, but make sure the low oil warning circuit is operating. If you could fabricate a metal plate to screw / bolt over the wound, and strengthen it up so that catastrophic failure is less likely, that might be helpful and not too expensive. I'll bet that a previous driver / owner ran into some object, damaging the leading edge of the bottom of the pan. ------------- Max Charleston SC On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 3:05 AM, clay via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I do not know the size of the hole. It is slathered in some epoxy, might > be JB Weld for all I can tell. The patch has failed such that the oil is > oozing/seeping out a fracture/inclusion and making small spots on the > asphalt. That is probably good for the macadam as it feeds it the needed > petroleum goodness. > > I guess I could topsider it and remove the offending patch to see just > what I am dealing with. What I can surmise is that at one point the car > hit something at the lower corner of the pan and this was the quick and > dirty repair. Had the under shield been in place, the damage would have > been negligible, as the padded plastic shield would have taken the hit > > clay > > > On Sep 11, 2016, at 11:04 PM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > Welding thoroughly oil-soaked metal is difficult. It gets into the pores > > and ruins the weld. How big is the hole? Could it be drilled and > tapped, > > and a JB-Weld-soaked screw run into it? > > > > -- Jim > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
