My baffled steel oil pan is dropping oil while the engine is running in every 2 seconds. We are using stock rubber gasket + locktight paste.

How the hell I can prevent oil dropping? I heard it is a common problem with Moroso...

 

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I just heard the same thing the other night at work. If no one has an answer I will ask the guy who had one how he fixed his on Thursday when I go back to work.

 

I use a rear sumped moroso and it only leaked at the front #1 side corner. When I had it off to look at the bottom end, I just added a dab of silicone sealer to the oem gasket and threw it back on and have no problems with it.

 

Is the oil pan warped? That's the first thing I would check.

 

Damn and I thought the Alum one was the one that had the problems. ****

 

Crap I didn't even notice you wrote steel man, disregard what I said, I have the aluminum.

 

um, theres some extensive tq pattern i know. i forgot it, but i know i had to help a friend that blew his motor. it wasnt me, i was the bitch who knew everything. The box wasnt moroso so.

 

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Was that written in Engrish??!?!?

 

few people i know don't use the rubber gaskets with that pan. same issues. but use honda bond or permatex and seals up fine.

 

i had no problems with mine leaking and i didnt use any honda bond or anything.

 

OK, keep it coming...

 

RTV is your friend. Try the grey.

 

FYI: oil pan "face" was checked for flatness and a hammer used where it was necessary... + new gasket + a little hondabond solved the probplem.

 

make sure the Pan and Block are super Clean, and you shouldnt have to use any sealent.

 

Not perfect... still dropping slightly.
Thinking to switch to a Mugen or Spoon oil pan.

 

Are you sure it's not the 1/2" NPT pipe plug for the oil return? I had to go back and Hondabond the plug before it stopped weeping.

 

yepp

 

&lt;---in for the fix

 

I am fed up with trying to seal it. Mugen oil pan ordered...

 

u made up your mind i guess lol. I don't think i'll be buying a moroso oil pan.

 

i'm using the steel pan and don't have any problems. the mating surface was pretty rough; i dremeled down a few bumps that were sticking up and use a bunch of hondabond to seal the dips. with about 700 miles on it i don't have any leaks yet.

 

I've been slowly getting to each leak. The pan probably leaks from every mating surface and port plug.

The oil drain port leaked. I tightened it a little more and it stopped. But, I always have to go back in a couple of days to check it and retighten if necessary.

The turbo oil drain was a big leaker. Fixed that by installing the 1/2" NPT to -10AN adapter with Hondabond and capping it with a -10AN flare cap. Fixing that leak kept a large portion of oil off the bottom of the pan.

The Mugen oil pan I had was perfect....except I didn't want to bastardize a $250 pan with a bunch of weld-on adapters. I'm kind of wishing I had now.

 

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Yeah, the Mugen pan is perfect for me as well (since it is a modified stock P72 pan).

 

I have found the problem lies int the nipples between the holes being too large. They squish the seal out of form and makes it leak. Solution....... I used a Felpro Gasket and it sealed perfectly. The seem to me made of silicone not rubber and do not loose their shape as easily as the OEM units.