i noticed i have a pretty decent sized dent in my oil pan, I noticed because my car stopped engaging VTEC... Is it okay to use a soft-faced hammer/mallet to work the dent out the other way?

 

are you sure the dent is what is preventing vtec from engaging? only way i see that happeneing is if the oil pickup tube is somehow blocked from the dent...

 

the dent is located at the back of the oil pan... a few inches behind the drain plug, and it looks like its about 3/4-1" deep.

and my car makes this weird noise at higher rpms, like its muffled or restricted or something...

its a JDM d15b

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by obuhmyuh &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">the dent is located at the back of the oil pan... a few inches behind the drain plug, and it looks like its about 3/4-1" deep.

and my car makes this weird noise at higher rpms, like its muffled or restricted or something...

its a JDM d15b</TD></TR></TABLE>

hmm that shouldnt have anything to do with ur car making weird noises, my car was dropped 3" and i live in a town thats not very speed bump friendly so my **** was all kinds of banged up and never had an issue with it... even used my oil pan as a good jack stand a couple times and still had no issues lol... just take it off, and see if u cant pop it out from the inside thats what i'd try...

 

 

yea hit that **** out with a hammer, dont forget to check the pick up screen, it might have collapsed as well, definately will fix your problem

 

you think that dent is worthy of disengaging VTEC???

 

no it doesnt look like it

 

if your oil is dirty enough it will cause your vtec to not work, its happened to me... twice... i smoke a lot of reefer and dont keep track of when i changed my oil,,, about 5K miles on that oil and ctec stops working, i change it, then it starts working again... and as far as it looks, i dont think that would affect your engine at all.. your vtec and noise complaints is not related to your oil pan as far as i can tell, that dent is just about nothing...

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 99GreenEX &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">if your oil is dirty enough it will cause your vtec to not work, its happened to me... twice... i smoke a lot of reefer and dont keep track of when i changed my oil,,, about 5K miles on that oil and ctec stops working, i change it, then it starts working again... and as far as it looks, i dont think that would affect your engine at all.. your vtec and noise complaints is not related to your oil pan as far as i can tell, that dent is just about nothing...</TD></TR></TABLE>

lol, i highlighted your HIGH comments..

 

well on my frends car it more surface area was dented in and it stoped his vtec, im pretty sure if you fix teh pan it will fix your vtec, just go out and try it, and instead of leaving the oil pan like that, fix it any way,

 

i picked up a new gasket for it for 16.99 im gonna go ahead and hammer that bitch back out... my oil was changed less than 100 miles ago, but my cylinder head was replaced by a revalved/surfaced head and i threw in a cam and cam gear. so im gonna drain it, and strain it for crap in it and throw it back in, (used royal purple, not gonna waste it)

 

i went to bang out those dents, but i couldnt get to them because of the way my oil pan is designed.... that thing was a PITA to take off/install, and im not even sure if i got a good seal on it

 

Damn brotha, that oil return definitely looks a lil scarred up... Maybe this was all worse than some of us were first thinking... Bang that summama bitch oil pan out, than bang it out some more lol... Hopefully that fixes ur problem, but that does not look good tho dude... Afterall, whats a vtec car without MaD TyTe JdM VtAkKK yO..!!!

 

haha. i took the fkcin thing off and i couldnt even hammer it out, look at the 3rd pic down, theres all this metal **** covering the bottom of the oil pan. the gasket i bought from pep boys didnt fit, so i tried to reuse my old one and oil started spewing out everywhere when i test drove it. so i gotta pull that bitch back off and take the gasket with me and get a new one.

 

oh and on my test drive, vtec worked. go figure. all i did was snugged up my oil pressure switch haha

 

well i mean the oil return sits in that open area, so just make sure u hammered down onto that area as best as possible and you should be good... and yeah pep boys blows donkey dingaling lol, i cut them off a while ago... good thing they built a napa right next door "and my brother works at honda so i get nice discounts locally" lol...

 

damn... im not so fortunate... pep boys is like a half mile from my house and kragen is like 3 miles and autozone is like 4. it coulda been my fault tho, i told them i need a 95 civic 1.5l oil pan gasket and this **** doesnt fit, maybe i need to order a different kind since its a jdm d15b.

 

yikes, hope you cleaned out that oil pan and oil pick up..looks like the pan is ddirrrtty as well as the pick up..

 

the oil pan just had some water in it, which i drained... how do u clean the pickup?

 

Yeah you need a Z6 oil pan gasket...

 

its the same gasket

i just used a different method and it went on fine...

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by obuhmyuh &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">its the same gasket

i just used a different method and it went on fine...</TD></TR></TABLE>

good **** i just always used all z6 parts for my old jdm d15 swap... except timing belt "thats a vx " lol

 

haha good thing i searched on d-series.org for that knowledge... these motors are so weird...

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by obuhmyuh &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">haha good thing i searched on d-series.org for that knowledge... these motors are so weird...</TD></TR></TABLE>

haha x2... but i liked my d15b better than my z6 or y8... "or even my old b16 for that reason" lol... i had my **** chipped and got it tuned when i was just i/h/e with PnP head, and the gas mileage was awesome, and still had my lil powerband action