I beg to differ, having done just that when the SDL slipped off the jack and put a hole in the pan. Also, yes, it can be welded. The trick is to keep the top surface flat during the process - not that easy. An experienced welder did mine, and it held until Kleb got the car - don't know the current status.
You have to remove a bunch of stuff and loosen an engine mount or two and lift the engine a bit, but you don't have to pull the engine to R&R the pan. The saga of my pan is in the archives somewhere . . . On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 9:33 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > 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 > > -- OK Don *“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”* – Mark Twain "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* 2013 F150, 18 mpg 2012 Passat TDI DSG, 44 mpg 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! _______________________________________ 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
