Need a Welding Person, Who Can Come to My Home?

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grr456

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The brand new oil pan on our race car has a small leak in an accessible lengthwise corner seam. The weld didn't penetrate the metal in one small area, for about 1 inch. It didn't begin leaking until our 2nd night of racing.

Anyway, I need someone who can tig weld. Either the corner needs to be re-welded or a small patch needs to be welded over the corner.

I don't want to remove the pan, because the leak is in an pretty accessible area, and we can lift the engine up pretty high...We'll have the oil all drained and everything as clean as we can get it and ready to be welded.

I'll pay to have this done...So, if a professional welder (jdustu (Josh) :) wants to do this, it would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks in advance....Gary
248-879-0835
 
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grr456 said:
The brand new oil pan on our race car has a small leak in an accessible lengthwise corner seam. The weld didn't penetrate the metal in one small area, for about 1 inch. It didn't begin leaking until our 2nd night of racing.

Anyway, I need someone who can tig weld. Either the corner needs to be re-welded or a small patch needs to be welded over the corner.

I don't want to remove the pan, because the leak is in an pretty accessible area, and we can lift the engine up pretty high...We'll have the oil all drained and everything as clean as we can get it and ready to be welded.

I'll pay to have this done...So, if a professional welder (jdustu (Josh) :) wants to do this, it would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks in advance....Gary
248-879-0835
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Is it steel or aluminum? Feel free to shoot me a PM :)
 
If there is oil on the other side of wherever you're trying to weld it might make things difficult.
 
Gary if jdustu can't get it taken care of I can get you a number. The guy that does the welding on our dies at work should be able to get it taken care of. I'll get you his number monday.
 
The pans gonna have to come off. Welding on it WILL ignite any oil and also contaminate the weld.
 
Yea thats what I waas thinking.....Oil can ignite, I would take the pan off and do it right....no point in risking burning down your car/house over that.
 
fakessturbo said:
I have a portable set of JB Weld tubes.
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Well, this JB what my brother decided to use. The bottom of the pan was separated from the side for about an inch, where the weld was crappy. He made a metal patch with a 90 degree bend in it. Then glued that to the bottom of the pan, after putting some of the JB weld underneath it. He then put a nice coating over the entire patch.

FWIW - We've had other oil pans welded while they were on the car on more than one occasion. No fire inside of the engine, or bad oil contamination or anything. No big deal, if you can get to the crack. The oil is drained prior to welding. Having racing oil pans crack due to the stresses isn't uncommon. It is just that this is a brand new pan that wasn't welded very good...

A huge thanks to Sean from CARS for offering to help right away. By the time I mentioned to my brother, he already had the JB on the pan. He didn't think anyone would offer to help so quickly, even though I said someone would. But, he wanted to have it fixed by Monday at the latest, so we would know if it was going to work incase we had to remove the pan to exchange it with a new one...

Thanks for the help......Gary
 
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If it's a brand new pan, have you tried to contact the manufacturer and see if they will help out. I mean , if it wasn't welded properly and they can check it out, they may replace it.
 
As far as welding it on the car, obviously taking it off is the way to go. But I don't see how the pan would "plump up" if you've taken the plug out? Unless you're pouring way too much heat into it and the pan's warping maybe? If it's a steel pan and you don't need 100% penetration or you just want to weld a patch, it's do-able. You just need to control the heat so it's not burning through. There are still obviously pretty major safety/fire risks.

With aluminum it's an even worse idea. I guess maybe a patch would be ok, but trying to weld a crack would be asking for a headache. It's so porous and gets so hot it just sucks any oil or contaminates into the weld.

I've seen that brake cleaner link posted a lot on different sites. I try not to use solvents on areas I'm going to weld, I like to mechanically clean as much as possible. But yeah, I've breathed some shit in like that before, and when you do, you know it's not extending your life :lol:
 
nuttsgt said:
If it's a brand new pan, have you tried to contact the manufacturer and see if they will help out. I mean , if it wasn't welded properly and they can check it out, they may replace it.
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This just happened Saturday night and I am pretty sure they'd replace it. It is a custom made pan and would take a few days to have made. I just didn't want to remove the pan. It is sealed perfectly (except for the weld area). We wanted to try fixing it first, that's all. If it doesn't work, then we'll go the exchange route....

By the way, we were second fast qualifer...Up from 3rd 2 weeks ago...

Thanks again for the help....Gary
 
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