Re: Oil pan tube
Before installing my missing tube, there was a few things I had learnt here on the Barn, was to make sure the tube did not thread to far up into the bearing cap, I carefully cleaned the threads as at sometime it had been tack welded, (pipe tap, cant remember the size)
I measured the depth of the hole, it was obvious it wasn't going to bottom out when refitted, in addition I filed a small vee grove facing rearward to allow a little more drainage, added a little JB weld to the threads to lock it in place.
After a 5 mile road test I was happy not seeing the trail of oil where I had been.
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