For the record, the pan has been on the car since it was built in the early 200s and has provided good service. It is an extremely low car and so that SBC sits low in the chassis, I normally catch or see in this case the raised up had steel section of the open pit at the oil changers, but did not actually see it and the employee did not pick up on it who was guiding  me in over the pit….It would probably have cracked a steel pan in the same way it shocked my alm pan and cracked it…..so no giant hole but a crack which started leaking….Just part of running a low car……mgb

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Subject: [Sandiegocarguys] Re: My Willy Aum Oil Pan

Get rid of the  CAST aluminum oil pan! 

A disaster waiting to happen.

Larry Hofer

Corvette Shop/Raylar Engineering

4645 Ruffner St., “I”

San Diego, CA  92111

858-277-8388

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Subject: RE: [Sandiegocarguys] My Willy Aum Oil Pan

Hi,

Just like the pan the Ray Smith broke on a rock going to Sedona in 1986 on the freeway in the rain east of Yuma.

Don

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Subject: [Sandiegocarguys] My Willy Aum Oil Pan

All back together and running here. As you always do a very nice Tig Weld both inside and outside on my hot rod oil pan which got holed at the oil changer place.Thanks so much making this pan repair for me Tony.....mgb

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