You can usually straighten out the pan with strategic hammering over a large heavy plate of steel or something. A straight edge will show you where the highs and lows are.
On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 11:19 AM Mitch Haley via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Used to see that on Borg-Warner transaxles in Saabs all the time. > Guy I worked for had a bunch of Napoleon hat shaped thick washers made up > to spread out the clamping forces so he could torque them down without > denting them. > I preferred to just tap them flat with a 8oz ball pein (ball end) and > torque them to (barely snug) spec. It's not that hard to knock the > overtorque dents out of a thin pan rim with the ball pein. > Just carefully taptaptap until it looks good. > Mitch. > > On March 31, 2019 at 10:45 AM Max Dillon via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > > > Craig, if you have over-tightened the pan bolts, you may have warped the > pan. > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > -- OK Don *“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”* – Mark Twain "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* 2013 F150, 18 mpg 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
