Hey, I just picked up my 85 CRX. After inspection, it's obvious that there is a small hole on the bottom of the pan.

Anyone know the easiest, most mickey mouse, cost effective method to fix this? Possibly without taking it off? Previous owner obviously tried to patch it with some kind of gasket sealer.

If someone HAS one laying around and would like to sell it, I would be interested.

 

JB weld is great

 

Take it off. Buy some JD weld and some gasket maker. Use the JB weld on the hole, gasket maker to make a new gasket to put it back on. a 15$ patch job that will last more then 10 minutes.

 

If I take it off, I might as well weld it for real. I was trying to avoid taking it off. As lazy as it sounds, this car cost me $250... I wanted it to just do my daily driving, but it's costing me $2/ day and is not so cost effective anymore... shiiiet.

 

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looks like I can put a self tapping screw through the hole, so I'm going to do that (hopefully), sand down the area, and JB weld it.

 

word, second drain plug good idea

 

After cleaning off the surface, I realized that the hole is the size of a pin hole. Hopefully it's the only hole.

Instead of enlarging the hole, I sanded about a 1/2 around this hole, cleaned it with brake cleaner and applied JB weld. It looks like this is the 2nd time this has been done. I didn't realize the stuff I took off of there previously was what JB weld looks like once it sets.

Anyway, hopefully this will last atleast a couple months. If I knew the size of the hole was this small, I wouldn't have been afraid to just weld it shut...

Thanks to everyone for their input. The CRX community