Oil Pan issue with conversions.

[Alphacowboy]

Ok, so going through most of the conversion threads, I have noticed that the main issue that people run into is the oil pan. I was wondering if any of you have thought about a custom pan instead. What seems to be the main concern is that the area for the oil pick up is so low, it hits alot of stuff, so, what I was wondering is if any company has addressed this market? I mean, they make low clearence race car engine pans for practicly every gas engine, why not diesels? Basicly, somthing like this...



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[DVolk]

oil pan issues

my thought is useing a marine version or farm equipment version of which are usally flat oil pans

 

[Kirwin]

Oil pan issues

The Dodge oil pan has a deeper dish portion that is located further aft than the stock Cummins oil pan. This allows the oil pan to clear the front axle on 4X4s. They also use a longer oil pickup tube in order to reach further aft to get into the deep portion of the oil pan. Don't ask me how I know these details it wasn't a fun time. :{ Ken Irwin

 

[RyanB]

Yeah I also tried using the Cummins oil pan on my conversion I just posted about! Durring mock up and everything the pan fit awsome but it wasn't untill I put the pan on my engine with engine girdle on that clearence became an issue. For me I wanted to run the cummins pan for two reasons. It holds almost 2 times the amount of oil and it also had aux bungs/plugs for me to run my twin turbo's for oil drain lines... to bad it didn't work!!!



Ryan

 

[Extreme1]

How about dry sumping for really low clearance?