These pans seem to be pretty resilient in my experience, My DD 240 had a blown engine and mildly dented pan. I got the car with a 617 that had been in a wrecked car, it had grass/mud caked over a crushed in pan. I popped the pan, found the pump pickup tube (cast aluminum) had busted off. Pulled off all broken parts, rinsed out oil pump intake on good engine & scrubbed out old 616 pan. Used permatex aircraft sealer with old gasket on 616 pan & used 616 oil pickup tube, been going fine, leak free and great oil pressure, for 2 yrs so far and running on the 617...

I recently hit a nice rock that had surfaced itself in my gravel driveway, damn thing made a nice kink in the pan, now I'll have to restraighten it again next service...DOH!

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