MAJOR DENT IN OIL PAN....

[Travis_R]

Hey ya'll,

I got my tractor hung up on a pine stump in a clear-cut last year when I was bush hogging my new deer food plot. I put a pretty major dent in the oil pan of my Mahindra 485 DI tractor. I've got 3 choices:

1............Leave it alone and just add alittle more oil above the full mark on the dipstick

2............Take it off and try to beat it out.(could possibly go to leaking)

3............Install a new oil pan(Whats the price????)

The oil pan has no holes or leaks in it. Just a very big smashed in dent.

I just want to say AGAIN that Mahindra tractors are very tough. I am 100% satisfied with mine......1102 hours and not a single problem except for a couple seals, which was supposed to be changed last year and never did it. But even all tractors leak somewhere. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Thanks,
Travis

 

[5030tinkerer]

I had a dent in an automobile oil pan once. I didn't mess with it until I had to take the pan off for something else. I was then able to heat it up a little and then pound it out without incident. Depending on the size of the dent, I'd be tempted to just leave it alone. I would have a reservation about over-filling it, though. It all depends on where the various seals are located.

Good luck,

Ed

 

[hudr]

I wouldn't overfill it, you could end up getting the crank into the oil and frothing it. If it wasn't too big I would leave it alone until, like was said before, I had some other excuse for taking it off and beating it out. Any way one of those little suction cup pullers would work on it? Depends on where it is and how deep. Did it get into the oil pickup?

 

[LAWALLSTRACTOR]

Watch your oil pressure guage real close and make sure you have no fluctuations in oil pressure. Then go to your local dealer and see if the dent is in the location of the oil pickup. If it is I would take it off and inspect the pan and the pickup tube. Then try to straighten the pan. Good luck with it.

Galen LaWall
Your Mahindra Tractor Dealer
Batavia, NY 14020
585-343-0770

 

[Travis_R]

Thanks for the replies.

The dent is on the left side almost to the bottom. But NO, the dent is definitely more on the left side than it is in the bottom.

I'll call my dealer (Singleton Sales & Service in Franklinton, LA) in the morning.

Travis

 

[cdover73]

Travis R,

Let me know how Singleton's deals with the service. I bought my 4530 there last Friday and haven't had a chance to see how they will react to service problems. So far they have been great though. Kenny sold me the tractor and threw in quite a few perks. By the way, I am in Greensburg, where are you located, if you don't mind saying?

 

[Outlander1]

Why not just take it to a body shop, have them tack weld on a few stems for the dent puller and let the slide hammer pull it out. Grind off the stems, touch up the paint and your good to go?

 

[YanmarFever]

cut to size
file to fit
paint to match ! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Travis_R]

I am in Colyell. Livingston Parish.........You know Ray Edwards? or Paul Mclin?

 

[YanmarFever]

No I dont know them, but I did read triple ought. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif