YES! Stop what you're doing! Use a grinder and take off the plates that are welded into the oil pan. When they are off, you'll see all the gritty stuff caked behind where they were. I did that AFTER having my oil pan hot tanked (twice) when I rebuilt the engine in the Spirit, and still ended up with 1 and a half CUPS of crap I had scraped out of the pan.
I tried the same thing with my oil pickup too, but there was still junk in it. Just go buy one at the dealer - I think it was about $30. Thanks, Marc Medina - www.marcmedina.com <---- now with Shelby Dodge stuff! ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 11:28 AM Subject: SD> worn in oil pickup > Hi All > I got my new Shelby Lancer home Sunday so now its time to find the > KNOCK-KNOCK-KNOCK in the engine. I dropped the pan and guess what!!!! Bad rod bearings > #1 and #3 so as I was under there I was looking at the oil pickup and guess > what I found. A long worm of RTV in the pickup It came from sealing the oil > pan with to much RTV from the factory you can see where the bead fell off the > inside of the pan. I guess it starved the engine of oil and fried the > bearings. I replaced all 4 bearings. Then I removed the oil pickup and sprayed it > with cleaner and you would not believe how much stuff came out!!!!!! Most of it > looked like bearing tinfoil and more RTV worms. The pan is going back on this > evening and filled with Mobil 1and new filter. Cross my fingers, knock on > wood that's all that's wrong. Anything I should do or check before I put the > pan back on? > > > > Roy > 86 GLHS #200 > 87 Shelby Lancer #781 5sp cloth > 81 Fiat Spider LE #501 > 81 Fiat X1/9 > > -----------------------REMOVE-FOOTER-WHEN-REPLYING------------------------ ---- > Questions? Visit http://www.sdml.org/ > > To be removed, visit http://www.sdml.org/pages/leave.html -----------------------REMOVE-FOOTER-WHEN-REPLYING---------------------------- Questions? Visit http://www.sdml.org/ To be removed, visit http://www.sdml.org/pages/leave.html
