Shop Discount Oil Pans

Yep, you be buying an engine.

I could fit my fist in the old oil pan, Any way for the update I found another engine for it for 750 118k on it, think its worth getting? Car is in excellent shape inside and out good strong tranny, sad that the engine went the way it did but that's life lol

Hmmm? I'm a fan of original good used exact engines - whole. It may be rare but my source(s) both - just two, fully check out the engines they keep from salvage yards. Done with biz long time now but would spend a couple hours if needed to check out the engine pre-purchase. These places have a sheet printed on the engines, compression results, miles etc.

If I could or sometimes wait - go out and look at the vehicle it came out of for any info I could dig up and what happened to salvage the car.

The places usually had them indoors on crates strapped down for delivery and came with total warranty but not any labor if it didn't work out.

So far NONE had ever failed! Still local and never used them is a place that does nothing but rebuild engines. Horrible #s of failures so forget that for that place.

Just pulling a valve cover to check sludge situation is telling of how well maintained it was. There's risk in any of this but can get the odds on your side.

I'd avoid private sales. May just be my take on the situation. It's not just labor of a swap but should factor a tune-up, oil change and what to do with your old engine if you take this on yourself or find the right shop to do it. Your call,

T

after it bottomed out the engine got real loud and wasn't accelerating how it should be,

That sounds like death to me.

Yup. Just the time of the video with oil light on, sounding like that damaged it even more. It may have somehow lost the oil pick up in changing the pan but doesn't matter as said earlier why there's way too low or no oil pressure it will kill it - fast.

At best I think if oil pressure could be restored now it would only be an oil burning clunk of an engine and not last,

T

An engine with no oil pressure as it seems it ran out of oil and was driven long enough which isn't very long to do severe damage. Oil light is not there for amusement but I think the damage is done and may need a new engine already and yes just that fast. The lack of power is it's tearing itself up from lack of lubrication by all odds. Doesn't matter if low oil pressure is from lack of oil or pump failure it still isn't getting absolutely necessary lubrication and extent of damage could easily exceed cost of a replacement or "game over" for that car possible unless you want to spend more than it's probably worth,

T

I guess you had the radio too loud. Your engine threw a rod and it's junk now.

I guess you had the radio too loud.

Haha, thanks for the comical relief.

Any experience/advice on the best way to get the most money out of this thing for scrapping it then? Metal scrap yard? Salvage yard? Craigslist? Otherwise its just going to sit off to the side of my driveway for a long time. All i know is im taking the tires and rims off that thing, they where 800$ Mudders and only have about 3k worth of miles on them.

Depending on what the rest of the running gear & body looks like......Try to part out what you can & then sell what's left for scrap...

Thanks everyone for the help and advice!

Call around and get prices. Craigslist is full of scrap guys trying to buy. If it's got a title, you should be able to get $300 to $400 for scrap.

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Let me get your logic here.

You damage the oil pan to the point where you have smoke and noises from the engine.

Now you pour water over the radiator and that somehow will resolve your oil problem.

Then you proceed to drive it this way...........

You've got to be kidding

If that was METERS than with an oil light blinding you, you should have walked to that shop for help. Never mind possible damage that you needed coolant filled also when especially oil warnings and temperature warnings come on you shouldn't expect much more if you drive it.

Please clarify how far, how long it ran with possibly no oil as yes that could be enough to ruin it,

T

The coolant was pretty much full when we filled it up. And I'm pretty sure it was just the oil sump.

Just the oil sump?

I thought I had indigestion but it turned out to be only a massive coronary.

I've been told the oil sump is simple to fix?

Probably would have been if you didn't drive it without one. The oil pump is the heart of the engine and when your heart stops pumping, you're pretty much screwed. The difference with a car is that you have to ability to shut it off until the problem is resolved.

So the 200 metre drive would have made serious damage?

You had smoke AND noise (probably knocking from lack of oil pressure) before you first shut it down. That was enough but then drove it more probably hearing it even worse
You mention "sump" ?? If oil pan was damaged enough to harm/destroy the oil pick up is going to make this more trouble to even find out. If it cranks or turns just one second now AND pick up for oil is still expected fine I'd temporarily patch the crack, use any cheap oil and start it for more info on how much damage has occurred. You may not know the extent till fixed and some miles. If oil pressure can't hold well or it smokes, still knocks it's probably game over for that engine or will just be a constant headache fouling plugs, burning oil, wrecking converter.

You don't need to take our word for what to do when you are warned of oil pressure loss just look in your owner's manual that won't say it's over but dang well should say shut down NOW and don't run it more.

It may run again but almost certainly has caused serious damage at best. If it doesn't turn you can pretty much forget it entirely,

T

Thanks for the help. The noise didn't worsen when we drove it again. I just have my fingers crossed the engine hasn't taken too much damage.

Luck happens. Just don't waste too much $$ finding out. You'll know when it will hold oil and some miles where it's at. Actually if this was some old beat up all iron engine already worn, consuming some oil regularly you'd have a better chance. It's low miles was against you IMO.

Watch it like a hawk for fluid levels and leaks and some time will tell,

T

Ok then, I know I'm pretty lucky (hopefully). The secretary didn't say much about the engine. What is an engine pipe though? After googling it, is it the exhaust one or the pickup pipe for the oil?

"Engine Pipe?"

That's pretty vague. Because this hit a rock type thing I can only guess that it's exhaust something. The pick up for oil in pan should be fine (not there so can only guess) if pan wasn't smashed bad enough. Exhaust could either make exhaust noise or if smashed/pinched be a restriction.

Hard to say without looking as this is damage from impact not just routine so looking at it would be imperative to get the best clue as to extent of damage.

Guessing it's still at the shop and I would go down and let mechanic/tech show you what has been found and explain what the problem or best guess fix is,

T

Yeah. She said they got the part from the wreckers/dump, so I'm thinking oil pipe from what I've read or can you get the exhaust one from the same place as well?

IDK - oil pipe? Except for an oil filter the rest is inside for oil. Exhaust could have a pipe to blow fresh air in that was easier to find used than wait or chase down new - just dunno?

Closest you could get is to take a video or pics pointing to what was damaged. Interpretations from a "secretary" may not be the best description so if in doubt or need to know ask to talk to the tech,

T

My grandfather found out, it's apparently it's got something to do with the exhaust and manifold?

If damage involved exhaust parts let the techs free and fix it or bail out on the whole car,

T

Ok, rang up the mechanic then. Something is also wrong with the engine pipe that they need to fix. How bad is that? I got the secretary and she didn't have a clue.