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Decent dent in Oil pan

4K views 13 replies 9 participants last post by  Laggy 
#1 ·
did some wheeling the other day and a rock kissed my oil pan pretty well. im in arkansas for the week and wont be back in dallas for another week.

i just drove it from hot springs to fayetteville, like a 3 hour drive. my gauges were fine and i didnt hear any knocks from the cab but due to the size of the dent im still a little sketched out

can i wait till im back in dallas or should i do this here in arkansas tonight.


i cant upload a picture off of this phone but ill try in a minute off of my girlfriends phone

thanks for the responses
 
#4 ·
yea photo isnt working but i believe these jeeps have a upper and lower pan (lower pan being the metal one with drain plug in it, i would be careful to say the least oil pickup coulda been bent who knows without seeing it. myself wouldnt risk it but thats without seeing the size of dent
 
#5 ·
Hot springs to Fayetteville is a pretty long way and through hilly terrain. If you made that trip without issue and there are no leaks, I'd say you're fine. Just my two cents.
 
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#10 ·
Mines been dented for a year or two, just watched the oil pressure and nothing funny happened, so I've been driving it that way for 20k miles. I have a skid plate to put on but I sort of want to change the pan first... more than likely though I'll just put the skid plate on before my next off-road trip and will forget the pan is even dented.
 
#11 ·
okay so ive been at it all morning, we took the oil pan out and banged the dent out, everything looks good, im buying a gasket, filter and some new oil as speak.

sad thing is i changed my oil right before i went on this trip hahah

thanks for all the replies yall....

this oil pan sure was something of a task to take out.
 
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