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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
Posts: 28,977
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Quote:
Originally posted by 125shifter
It's been plugging a hole in my truck's oil pan for a couple years now. Maybe I should put the story in the stupidest things you done thread  .
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Years ago, circa 1978 or so was driving up in Northern part of Missouri on a country road. All of a sudden lots of blue smoke out of the back so I stopped.
I had picked up a bolt with one of my front tires and somehow thrown it into my oil pan. No idea where it came from, but it was not from my car. Found it lodged in the side of the aluminum oil pan, with oil dripping out near the exhaust manifolds. Limped the car into a nearby garage and we put it up on the lift. Not many Jaguar oil pans in that neck of the woods.
We cleaned it off with spray brake cleaner and sealed it up with JB weld and let it sit for lunch. Re-filled it with oil and headed home.
That repair lasted for almost 30 years until I restored the car two years ago. Found the repair and smiled at its lasting that long. The oil pan is retired now and a serviceable unit in its place.
Done correctly JB weld will do almost anything and last a long time.
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2021 Subaru Legacy, 2002 Dodge Ram 2500 Cummins (the workhorse), 1992 Jaguar XJ S-3 V-12 VDP (one of only 100 examples made), 1969 Jaguar XJ (been in the family since new), 1985 911 Targa backdated to 1973 RS specs with a 3.6 shoehorned in the back, 1959 Austin Healey Sprite (former SCCA H-Prod), 1995 BMW R1100RSL, 1971 & '72 BMW R75/5 "Toaster," Ural Tourist w/sidecar, 1949 Aeronca Sedan / QB
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