Please help ID this oil pan

[40Ford!!]

Guys, is this oil pan for a Big Truck or a regular 3/4 ton pick up? I am asking because I my engine builder is telling me the clearance between the oil pick up tube and the pan is about 2". He feels the rule of thumb is more like 3/4". He says he can modify the pick up tube to make it work, but I would rather not as I may need to replace it again one day and have to go through this all over again. I am also attaching another picture of a truck oil pan that looks like it is not as deep so I am thinking this may be what I need? Thanks!

 

[40cpe]

I've never seen one like is on the engine, but the bell housing attachment holes are higher on it than on a regular pick-up pan. It looks like it is a deeper pan and possibly for a larger truck or for a stationary application.

 

[scooder]

Try to get hold of a regular truck pan, or shorten the one you got to fit the oil pickup.
Martin.

 

[flatjack9]

The pan on the right is the one you need. How deep is your pan? I also have never seen one quite like the one on your engine.

 

[Ross F-1]

I wonder if that is a military pan on the left?

Personally, I'd avoid a truck pan if you could, and use a car pan. Those cleanouts aren't that useful nowadays, and getting them sealed is near impossible. You'd need to go to the more common car pickup tube too.

 

[40Ford!!]

Thanks everyone. Looks like the consensus is I have a big truck pan or possibly military etc??? That answers my question. I'm going to use the other pan that appears to be not as deep. Thanks!

 

[40Ford!!]

my pan is about 8.5' deep. And that is about 2" too deep so i will need a car pan to make things right. Thanks everyone.

 

[Walt Dupont--Me.]

You don't say what the engine is going in. The car pan has a center sump and will not work in a 48 and older car, the tie rod will it the pan. Walt

 

[rotorwrench]

Both are truck pans but the painted one has been modified with bushings (or are those nuts) at the clean out attachment. It also looks like the rear seal plate retention parts have been partly removed from it. Truck pans normally have a cast aluminum seal retainer than bolts on with the starter plate and the half bell.

Most Ford car pans are center sump type and are not deigned to work with the pressed steel half bell. The Mercury cars have a shallower rear sump with no clean out and fit in the older cars pretty well. Just make sure you have the proper dip stick and starter plate for the pan and/or bell housing (half bell on Mercs & trucks) you use.

 

[Ross F-1]

The cast aluminum part on truck parts is a dust shield, not a seal retainer.