Re: Windage Tray install

From: Bob Tom (tigers@bserv.com)
Date: Wed May 09 2001 - 10:58:37 EDT


At 07:00 AM 5/9/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Has anyone sucessfully installed a crankshaft windage tray and the main
>studs that go w/it? I have been fighting this install for several weeks
>now and am just about ready to give up and go back to stock main bolts
>and no tray. 2 of my mounting studs were hitting the stock oil pan not
>letting it mount all the way up. I cut off about 3/8's of each of those
>2 studs and still have problems getting the pan rails to meet. I mocked
>the pan/studs/tray up on another block in my garage and it looks like
>the tray itself is also not clearing the stock oil pan. I would just
>purchase an aftermarket pan but the only one that I can find for my
>application is almost $300 and I just can't drop that on an oil pan.
>Shane

Hi, Shane.

Are you using the weird main-bearing cap bolts (with the 1/4-20 tapped
hole in the cap) for #2 and #4 mains?

Bob



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