C 7 oil pan
About 3 years ago I posted a picture of my badly corroded oil pan on my C7 Cat. Well back then I removed as much rust as I could without taking the pan off and coated it with a epoxy product from an a...
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Problem is, where the engine is mounted. On a rear mount, the oil pan is constantly exposed to the elements, rain, snow, gravel flung up from the tires... It;s constantly bombarded with stuff that causes premature corrosion.... and they use the cheapest steel available to form the pan anyway. I think Cummins and Detroit use a structural fiber oil pan instead of stamped steel. I know they do on big trucks. Those have their detractions as well but corrosion perforation isn't one of them.
