Hole in my oil pan!

[Cougsfan]

My friend pounded it out straight, fabricated a patch out of a small piece of old tail pipe he had laying around, used a wire feed welder, welded one edge, pound the next edge into shape, welded that edge, pounded the next edge to shape .... etc. Then he welded it again from the inside. Will be good as new. I have lost a tablespoon of oil capacity though He is certain that I ran over a piece of t-post fencing or something similar. He may be right. You'd think a rock would smash a bigger area and not make such a clean tear. Now to put it back together.

I have been scratching my head on what that oil pressure icon is supposed to represent. It's either an oil pump or a rod journal with a weird bearing. I agree that an oil can is the standard understandable icon for oil pressure. I get a kick out of the soot scrubber icon too. It shows a shower head blowing water or something. How the heck does that relate?

 

[ericm979]

I thought the DPF icon represented an exhaust pipe blowing lots of soot. The oil pressure warning and probably the DPF symbol are ISO standard symbols. The outer part of the oil pressure symbol is common for all engine related symbols. I think it represents a crankcase. The inner droplet part is used for all engine oil related symbols.

Here's the applicable standard. It's a large PDF. The engine oil related ones are on page 14.
https://webstore.iec.ch/preview/info_iec60417{ed1.0}b.pdf

I've worked on standards committees and while they're often imperfect or downright disfunctional, at least there's a standard.

 

[Ford850]

I thought the DPF icon represented an exhaust pipe blowing lots of soot. The oil pressure warning and probably the DPF symbol are ISO standard symbols. The outer part of the oil pressure symbol is common for all engine related symbols. I think it represents a crankcase. The inner droplet part is used for all engine oil related symbols.

Here's the applicable standard. It's a large PDF. The engine oil related ones are on page 14.
https://webstore.iec.ch/preview/info_iec60417{ed1.0}b.pdf

I've worked on standards committees and while they're often imperfect or downright disfunctional, at least there's a standard.

I just saved that doc - wow it will answer a lot of questions! Thank you.

 

[dragoneggs]

My friend pounded it out straight, fabricated a patch out of a small piece of old tail pipe he had laying around, used a wire feed welder, welded one edge, pound the next edge into shape, welded that edge, pounded the next edge to shape .... etc. Then he welded it again from the inside. Will be good as new. I have lost a tablespoon of oil capacity though He is certain that I ran over a piece of t-post fencing or something similar. He may be right. You'd think a rock would smash a bigger area and not make such a clean tear. Now to put it back together.

Good to hear! T-post seems a likely culprit.

 

[PILOON]

A good fix and well documented.
Just the kind of posting that TBN is all about.