So what happened to the oil pan? Rust hole or puncture or? Sent from my iPhone
> On Jan 29, 2023, at 6:10 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Last week we got a bunch of heavy wet snow, like 6 or 8 inches. It snowed > off an on all week. Trees down all over the place. We never lost power at our > house but we did lose one phase for awhile back on Tuesday. > > For the snowmobile club this means a LOT of trail clearing. The method is we > take the Pisten Bully and use it's blade to push stuff off the trail until we > get to a tree that it can't handle, then we bail out, cut the tree and push > it off with the machine. Lather, rinse, repeat every 50-100 yards. > > Anyway to keep this from turning into a epic at some point we popped a > radiator hose. We were down for 2 hours fixing that and hauling in coolant by > snowmobile over trails that really weren't passable. Common sense and a self > preservation instinct have no place here. > Here's the working party: https://photos.app.goo.gl/hmkZpPFbG9szw2ua9 > Typical, one guy working, 3 standing around. ;) > > We got the machine started again and noticed it had no oil pressure. Sure > enough there was no oil on the stick. We HAD to get it moved because we were > in a place we should not have been. Moved the machine about 100 feet. It shut > off and would not crank. > > Uh oh... > > Today I drove as close as I could get, then hiked 2 more miles in with a > couple other guys to access the damage. We poured some oil in which dripped > back out but it told me where the hole was. I stuck my camera under there and > got this: https://photos.app.goo.gl/PW7o7JZ1DdyT6cLu8 > Warning: It's ugly... > > On the positive side once we realized the battery cables had somehow gotten > loose we got the machine to crank and fire. I obviously didn't let it run > long but it was such a relief to hear it fire. > > So the plan now is to get the pan off and either get it repaired or get a > replacement. Right now looks like repair is the option we'll take. If > somebody has an oil pan for an OM352LA (MB content!) let me know. > > So anyway I might get to help refurb a big MB engine or we might get lucky > and it's good enough as is. The best news out of all of this is that the > machine will probably walk itself out. That's a HUGE relief as dragging a > 20,000# machine 3 miles out gave me nightmares. > > Oh, side note, while this was going on I went back and grabbed the ASV as a > support vehicle hoping to push a road open. That has a HUGE hydraulic leak. > Most of how I spent today was dumping gallons of oil into that and walking it > back out. I *hope* that's just an oring failure but I haven't looked at the > parts book yet. > > -Curt > > _______________________________________ > 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
