I've circled in yellow what I'll be using for my oil return line off the oil pan. Question is, do you guys think there will be any leaking issues? The washers have a rubber sealing ring and will be between both surface areas of the oil pan. The lock nut will tighten everything together.

Or should I just get it welded in place..

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me and my friend(tegasaurus) used jbweld and his is still holding and not leaking at all. buy some jb weld, its cheap.

-Ryan

 

You should be fine with what you have....Just throw some JB weld on there just to make sure

 

my setup is almost identical. fuel cell bulkhead goes into hole in pan, teflon washers between both sides of pan and nut. earls swivel head fitting screwed onto bulkhead. if u drill the hole perfectly to match the end that will go into it, you should have no problems at all as long as it is tight. i can't tell by that pic but i know for mine that the part of the bulkhead that goes into the pan went in far enough that it makes it almost impossible to leak unless the oil pan is overfilled. if u think about it, since this fitting goes inside of the hole and out the other end, it's like a sealed tunnel; there are no gaps between that and the pan where oil could leak out. with most fittings i see that are welded on, a gap or bad weld could permit oil to seep through a bad seal. in your case, the oil has no chance to escape until the end of the fitting, where it is already all the way inside the pan

 

I'd put some red locktite on the lock nut just to make sure it won't come off, and to seal the threads.

 

Cool, thanks guys.

 

when you drill the hole make sure its a small as possible. super tight fit. one time we drill the hole the hole some perfect we had to screw it on the pan and then put the nut and tight it down. Oh and jbweld might never come off. try hondabond. heck the washers should be plenty but time/heat will beak apart the washers sooner or later just check once in a while.

 

I used that exact same setup(except I used a 90 instead of a 45), and it worked very well. 0 leakage and very convenient for those without acess to a wleder. I used some Permatex in addition to the strat-o-seals and it sealed awesome.

 

where did you get all that stuff?

where is the best place? sorry im about to get mine so i thought id ask real quick?

 

I bought these at http://www.amstreetrod.com/catalog.html almost a year ago. I'm at work right now so I don't have the part numbers, but I can PM them to you tonight when I get home

 

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ok thanks alot.

 

I have the EXACT same set up as you are using on your oil pan and I haven't had any problems, it's been about 7 months now

 

Personnaly I found JBweld to be the cheapest sollution but not the best at all,
if you want to free your mind of this, just drop the oil pan, if you weld, weld it inplace with a Mig welder, other than that, bring it to a welding shop, they will tig weld it, it wont leak, it wont crack either. ...
this kind of job cost at the most 20 $ around here, so don't bother spending 10 $ of jbweld if you can have the permanant solution for around 20 $

Kranked

 

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ditto...

krazy