Oil Pan baffle question

[James Rogers]

Originally Posted by Doug Clayton

The tray was lowered (by relocating the ribs on the flanges) and small holes were punched in the flat surface in 1931 to lower oil consumption. A special splash shield was also added around the oil pump at the same time. I can't tell in the first picture if the right hand tray is one of these, but it sure looks like it!

OK, so Doug, that makes the small hole tray a late 31 change instead of 32, right? I can agree with that and the shield. I believe Ford had a problem with oil escaping from the filler pipe from early on with all the changes in the tray and filler tube and these holes were a continuation of that R&D to solve the problem. The later tray had even bigger holes so that must have been the cure because no more changes have been found.