Split oil pan?

[KevsfastZ]

Is there such a thing as a split oil pan? I over heard someone talking about that and it didn't sound practical to me.

Thanks,
Kev D

 

[Daggar]

That depends on what you mean by "split". There are multi-level race pans out there that ridges or plates along the outside of the pan that keep the oil from riding up during hard cornering. Or maybe they're just talking about the double hump pan common to Fox bodies?

 

[KevsfastZ]

i mean like there are 2 seprate drain plugs

 

[jerryD]

like a dual sump pan? stock on most 302 mustangs. kinda like this one from canton:

 

[KevsfastZ]

i guess but why are they seprate

 

[jerryD]

i guess cause the oil pump is in the front, and the pick-up is is the back.

 

[KevsfastZ]

well on a stock 302 the oil pan is a slope and it looks nothing like the one posted above

 

[jerryD]

well here are the stock style pan then which one are you talking about?
front sump:
View attachment 515113

stock 5.0 dual sump:
View attachment 515114

 

[KevsfastZ]

well my friend changed the oil in his car and it was running fine for weeks then the other day when he was beating on it the #3 cylinder became dead. First I notice that there was water coming out of the exaust and that the spark was ok. When I looked at the sparkplug it looked like it had fuel on it but I din't check to see if it was fuel or not so i'm thinking it was overfilled with oil but don't understand how it lasted for a little more then a month

 

[jerryD]

sounds like he blew a head gasket. do a compression test, check oil for coolent, check coolent for oil. is it puffing white smoke out the pipes when it is running?

 

[KevsfastZ]

yeah it is I figured it was but if you put to extra quarts in there what could it do? and would that cause a cylinder to fail?

 

[jerryD]

why did he put 2 extra quarts of oil in? i don't think the the extra oil cause the problem. it just would have been thrown around in the pan by the crank. maybe the head gasket was old and it was its time to go? you never said what year engine or miles. i'm sure someone else can explain better than I. crap happens sometimes.

 

[KevsfastZ]

well we found 2 extra quarts in the car and im thinking that the pan was split but its sn 84 mustang 5.0 302 with 75k

edit: he din't put extra oil in it i'm thinking that it was just not all drained

 

[jerryD]

should only take 5 qts of oil. thats what i run even in my canton pan like in the pic above. well, hope you guys can get it figured out, and remember 5 qts. later.

 

[KevsfastZ]

lol no he put 5 in but i'm saying if the pan is split and you only drained 1/2 the oil
but were gonna start working on it tomorrow, thanks for your help