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Does Oil pan surface have to be perfectly clean? V70-XC70 2003

posted by  james_a_sousa on  Sun Jul 14 14:04 CST 2024
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Before you took the pan off was it leaking? If so, you should check for distortion using a flat plate or a good machinists straight edge. (Glass is sometimes used as a flat plate.)

I worked with microwave devices for radar and to make sure the flanges were flat, they used to be "lapped" on fine sandpaper so that there were X number scratches per inch and in an even pattern.

To do this to an oil pan you would need a huge sheet of sandpaper.

For a distorted oil pan, a machine shop could true it, or perhaps a glass plate and some rubbing compound to lap it.






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