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Hi Susan, Hobert, David, Jim and the rest of the gang,

I finally got around to installing the KEP oil pan last Saturday. It
mounted up just fine. I was able to install all the bolts, starting them
with my fingers, just fine, all except one. Don't tell Hobert but I left
that one out!! It is the one located at the rear of the pan between those
two plug fittings that stick down from the Subaru engine. I put a nice bead
of gasket goop on the pan before I installed it and once I had all the bolts
started (except one) I just snugged them up a bit, broke for lunch and let
the goop firm up a bit and then tightened them the rest of the way. That
pan is stiff enough and flat enough that I figured I could get away with one
missing bolt. I have since driven several hundred miles and not a drop of
oil has leaked. Perfect!

As for the dip stick. I had to cut the mounting tang off the dip stick in
order to get it out (down) from between the engine and timing belt cover.
No matter how I held my lips or what evil words I said could get that dip
stick out of there without cutting the tang off. Anyway, once I had it out
I just plugged it back into the new pan location with it coming up between
the timing belt cover and the heat shield. I made a bracket to hold it in
place and am using it that way. I did not try bending it so it would aim at
the license plate door. You see, I like to pull the engine cover every now
and then to admire my Subaru engine!! That and the fact that I have to add
about a quart of oil every 1,000 miles!

Anyway, all this to say... I'm a happy guy!!

Thanks.

Of course I have the KEP oil pan on my webpage with pictures.



I understand you may be on the verge of building an additional building. If
so, I hope my putting the new oil pan out there on the web doesn't cause you
additional headaches.

I will pull it off the web if you want.

I will send you my original oil pick up tube. I had given you a Subaru pan
I picked up at a wrecking yard that you converted for me while I was there.
Now have an additional one that you can have if you want it.

Happy new year and much success.

Ron

Ron Bloomquist wrote:

Hi Susan, Hobert, David, Jim and the rest of the gang,

I finally got around to installing the KEP oil pan last Saturday. It
mounted up just fine.

Ron, you dog you! I guess you know we're all green with envy!! My spare
pan has been patiently sitting in a corner of my garage for several
months, just waiting for KEP to say the word. This makes it MUCH harder
to be patient! I think it'll work in my plane, too!
Larry

Hey Ron,

Why do you have to add a quart of oil to your engine every 100
miles. Is it caused by the new oil pan?

Thanks,

Sudeep

andrew.grebneff@... wrote:

I think it'll work in my plane, too!
Larry

Do you really need more than 20,000 feet of ground clearance!

Andrew,
No, I guess that should be plenty! However, the cowling is quite tight,
and I can use all the space I can get inside there.
Larry

Ron, you dog you! I guess you know we're all green with envy!! My spare
pan has been patiently sitting in a corner of my garage for several
months, just waiting for KEP to say the word. This makes it MUCH harder
to be patient! I think it'll work in my plane, too!
Larry

Do you really need more than 20,000 feet of ground clearance!


Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin, New Zealand
VW & mollusc nut
1984 VW Type 25 Caravelle (currently SVX engine; waiting for a Porsche trans)
1985 Mitsubishi Galant Sigma 2.0 (FWD), for sale
1986 CE80 Toyota Corolla 1.8DX diesel (extaxi)
1989 CE96 Toyota Corolla 1.8DX diesel wagon
1989 CT170 Toyota Corona Select 2.0 diesel (taxi)

Yo Sudeep,

I believe I wrote that I add a quart of oil every 1,000 miles - not 100
miles. No, the pan does not leak but the engine seems to use some oil. It
does not smoke out the exhaust or anything but still, about every 1,000
miles, I am a quart low. I was using 10w30 but have switched to 20w50.
That might slow down the oil consumption.

Life is good.

Ron