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 04-16-2004, 19:53 Post: 83357
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  7 3 powerstroke oil pan rusted through

Please! Don't go cheap or crude! If the truck is worth owning, replace the pan with a new or good used one! This is not a difficult job. At worst a motor mount may need to be loosened and jack up the motor for clearance to remove/install. A patch will only fail when you are as far from civilization as possible! (Directly quoted from Murphy's law)






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  7 3 powerstroke oil pan rusted through

Don't be. Remember a diesel is much simpler than a gas motor. Never done a 'pan on a p-stroke but couldn't be any worse than a 4x4 with a 460. Just be careful where you put your fingers!!






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Maybe I'm just stupid, but who told you that the motor HAS to come out to do this job? A mechanic who wants the $1400?

Try some other places which are NOT a Ford dealership for another opinion. A small repair shop may be more interested in the job (that quote sounds like a brush-off). Try some of the "Big Truck" mechanics. Many of these folks do small jobs like this on the side for cash.

Patching: It is impossible to clean the loose material (and it is there) from the INSIDE of the old pan, it WILL come loose eventually and clog the oil pickup on the oilpump and then the whole motor will be junk. Bad idea in general.






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Best of luck on the "bandaid." Glad to hear you plan to replace the pan though. Make sure to keep lots of spare oil in the truck if you go very far from civilization with it in case of another failure.

With so many of the Ford PSD trucks on the road I'm surprised (well, maybe not...) that they have this problem so often. Lack of paint, huh? Did your truck seem to have any paint residue where the rust was/is?

Unfortunate the design of the install is so cramped that all that work is required to do the repair. Boy, do I love my Dodge/Cummins even more now.






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