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my 3L i just picked up has a brand spankin new oil pan on it (clearly brand new, and the gasket is too its easy to tell its shiny ass clean and the rest of the motor is corroded in places liek aluminum gets)

can i run that oil pan? or do i need the 2.5L windage tray, pickup tube, and pan?
 
These are all in the parts sticky

- 3M4Z-6675-BA Upgraded Oil Pan Set
- YL8Z-6622-BA 01+ Upgraded Oil Pickup (req 01+ main studs)
- YL8Z-6687-AA 01+ Upgraded Windage Tray (req 01+ main studs)

There are several sets of dipstick / tubes, not sure which combo goes with this pan. I think we used the original 2.5L dipstick. You can probably use the pan you have. I think the majority of oil starvation issues were due to the drainbacks in 2.5L heads and not the pan. Baffling in the pan can't hurt though.
 
you can run a 2.5L oil pan with the 3L insides which are better or you can just run a 3L Escape oil pan. I have used both.

Aaron
 
The 3.0 pan itself is barely improved over the 2.5. It has 2 turning vanes internally and a bit more ribbing on the exterior. The internal (lower) baffle has more open area which allows oil to drop into the pickup area BUT it also allows the oil to slosh upwards away from the pickup during hard cornering maneuvers. The windage tray (upper baffle in Ford-speak) is far superior in the 3.0 as the ratio of open to closed area is much higher and minimizes the amount of oil splashing off of it and back up in to rotating crank assembly. Unfortunately, installing it means using the 3.0 pickup and changing some of the lower to upper crankcase bolts as they support the pickup.

My 2.5 uses a 2.5 pan with 3 extra baffles TIG'd (1 slosh baffle and 2 drainback baffles), the 2.5 lower baffle (modified slightly), a 2.5 windage tray (custom machined w/ a stainless screen added) and the stock 2.5 pickup. In all likelihood, this setup will also be going on my 3.0.
 
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3l swap

3l swap

if I am geting 2003 3l taurus engine for a swap do I have to get a oil pancan I use it with mtx etc etc
 
Correct. If you want to run the 3L pan have to mod it a little where the clutch bolts up. Have to get the Escape stuff if you want to run the 2.5 which has been stated over and over and over and over and over.
 
DyComet said:
If I recall correctly, you can't run a Taurus pickup with a Contour/Escape oil pan.
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Never mind you said Taurus pickup...I read escape pickup. You are correct.... :blackeye:
Escape oil pan is the same dimensionally as the contour one and the pickups can be interchanged, at least on the couple of years that I've done.
Dipsticks can be interchanged too but the escape one sits higher. It still fits in the car though.
Just keep all the 2.5L stuff and it will be fine.
 
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FYI, Bill Jenkins says the Escape oil pan has been revised yet again (last month or so). Hopefully he will post some pics of this new revision so we can determine if a noticeable improvement in design or drainback has been made compared to the old part number 5L8Z-6675-AA.
 
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I have the new revised one. To be completely honest I didn't see any difference at all between them. I don't know if the old one had an integrated gasket but this one did.
 
pan ?

pan ?

if I want to put escape's pan in my 2.5 is it just a straight swap or I have to do some modifications with a dipstic etc?

I looked at the postings and I am not 100% sure, my pan is wet because of the gasket and I think since this is happening I could upgrade it.


thank you
 
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