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08-16-2004, 12:37 PM
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Would like to fabricate missing Underbody Cover 87 300D
Hi I own a 87 300D and I heard someone got a hole in their Turbo. That plus the fact that the little cube extension on the oil pan is fragile makes me nervous about getting a rock on the highway. Does anyone have a pic of this pan and any ideas on how to make it? I was going to use aluminum, or at worse adapt the plastic underpan from a Volvo or someother car. I'm not worried about noise reduction. Heck if I could I would even use plywood.
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08-16-2004, 07:54 PM
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Did you check the price from the dealer for the plastic one's it came with? The covers that came off mine didn't look that expensive, by the time you factor in price and time for makeing one up it might be cheaper just to find a set. Maybe a junk yard as well?
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08-16-2004, 10:08 PM
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They are pretty expensive at the dealer.
You can make one out of aluminum sheet, fairly thin, if you are handy. It curves up and covers the sway bar in the front -- screw fittings are the two outer brakets with rectangular holes in them for the "nut" (actually a folded sheet metal doodad). Screw is in a recess about half an inch deep in the plastic pan, I'd make something similar. There is about 2" clearance under the oil pan, I think, but you will be fine if you must make it slope smoothly back from the front to rear. I believe the two screws at the back are recesses about the same as the front. Same rectangular hole for the "nut" -- yours may in fact still be there, although the main reason these are not re-installed appears to be that overitghtening the screws causes the "nut" to collapse and refuse to stay snapped into the hole so the pan falls off. New screw and nut set is about $1.50 per pair. The rear edge has the two screws in large "ears", the recesses fit into the back pan (also missing on your car, it drags on the road if the front one isn't installed). The control arm pivots are outside the pan on the sides. Peter
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1972 220D ?? miles 1988 300E 200,012 1987 300D Turbo killed 9/25/07, 275,000 miles 1985 Volvo 740 GLE Turobodiesel 218,000 1972 280 SE 4.5 165, 000 - It runs!
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