I bought an aluminum drain pan like yours and I changed three different gaskets,still leaked. After two years of a slow drip I replaced the dip stick tube and voila no more leaks! Couldn't imagined that was my problem all along? It's the simple things that drive me crazy!
I bought one of those die cast pans. Pretty good quality but I wasn't impressed with the gasket area. I had a 2'x2' slab of granite counter top left over from the kitchen remodel. I double-sticky-taped 4 pieces of 60 grit sand paper to the slab. Then I lapped the pan gasket area using figure-8 patterns. Took about 30 minutes. Then where the ejector pin "dimples" were too deep I filled them with JB Weld and re-lapped it til perfectly flat. Turned out beautiful. I haven't installed it yet but I expect no issues.
meridian208 no the edges having that ridge we suppose. Changed back to factory pan with a rubber gasket and fixed the issue. Kept leaking out of the side of new aluminum pan with plug.
Did that new oil Pan work? Or is it still leaking? Wanna make sure that pan is good before I pull the trigger an buying one myself! Please let me know thank you 🤙🏽
This pan is actually really good. And the drain plug is super convenient. I just redid this again using the moroso thick blue gasket with the steel insert. I'm still having a small leak. So either something is up with my transmission itself, or it is leaking from somewhere else I haven't determined yet. I helped a buddy service his transmission last weekend and he used a gasket from Holley. It has inserts in the bolt holes so you can't overtighten. And it also has like a raised o-ring type seal around it too. We bolted that on and so far so good. He re-used the steel pan also.
Bought the same pan and the expensive thick blue rubber gasket. Mine still leaks around the front, driver’s side corner bolt. Dry as a bone everywhere else. I’m convinced this transmission is cursed and will find a way to leak no matter what.
I hear you...mine still leaking too actually. Seems to be seeping past the hex bolts that came with the pan. But I haven't really looked to closely at it yet.
@@meridian208 I finally discovered my pan had a crack around the bolt hole where it leaked. The guy I spoke to from the gasket manufacturer actually suggested I look really close for something like that. He had nothing good to say about these pans. He recommended going with a pan that has a machined flat gasket surface. More $$$, but he said that should cure it.
I bought an aluminum drain pan like yours and I changed three different gaskets,still leaked. After two years of a slow drip I replaced the dip stick tube and voila no more leaks! Couldn't imagined that was my problem all along? It's the simple things that drive me crazy!
I bought one of those die cast pans. Pretty good quality but I wasn't impressed with the gasket area. I had a 2'x2' slab of granite counter top left over from the kitchen remodel. I double-sticky-taped 4 pieces of 60 grit sand paper to the slab. Then I lapped the pan gasket area using figure-8 patterns. Took about 30 minutes. Then where the ejector pin "dimples" were too deep I filled them with JB Weld and re-lapped it til perfectly flat.
Turned out beautiful. I haven't installed it yet but I expect no issues.
Thanks! Hope it sealed up for you. Pan is leaking on my 69 Chevelle.
So we are actually putting the factory one back on our Nova because aluminum one we put on with a plug kept leaking as well.
Interesting, the plug part was leaking or?
meridian208 no the edges having that ridge we suppose. Changed back to factory pan with a rubber gasket and fixed the issue. Kept leaking out of the side of new aluminum pan with plug.
Have the same problem but mine is leaking from around one of the bolts
Gonna try putting silicone around the bolt and then put it in
Curious why you didn't just use the spacers B&M includes for the pan bolts? A lot easier than grinding
Did that new oil Pan work? Or is it still leaking?
Wanna make sure that pan is good before I pull the trigger an buying one myself! Please let me know thank you 🤙🏽
This pan is actually really good. And the drain plug is super convenient. I just redid this again using the moroso thick blue gasket with the steel insert. I'm still having a small leak. So either something is up with my transmission itself, or it is leaking from somewhere else I haven't determined yet. I helped a buddy service his transmission last weekend and he used a gasket from Holley. It has inserts in the bolt holes so you can't overtighten. And it also has like a raised o-ring type seal around it too. We bolted that on and so far so good. He re-used the steel pan also.
Bought the same pan and the expensive thick blue rubber gasket. Mine still leaks around the front, driver’s side corner bolt. Dry as a bone everywhere else. I’m convinced this transmission is cursed and will find a way to leak no matter what.
I hear you...mine still leaking too actually. Seems to be seeping past the hex bolts that came with the pan. But I haven't really looked to closely at it yet.
@@meridian208 I finally discovered my pan had a crack around the bolt hole where it leaked. The guy I spoke to from the gasket manufacturer actually suggested I look really close for something like that. He had nothing good to say about these pans. He recommended going with a pan that has a machined flat gasket surface. More $$$, but he said that should cure it.
those bolts are allen head, not hex head.