defrag4

Running into oil pan problems on my 1992 2WD 3.0 auto swap. My motor is out of a 2WD 96 T100 auto, the 3.4L T100 pan hits this cross-member that looks like its linking the lower control arms.

Its pretty close, but still not going to work... I may be able to get it to fit if I remove the crossmember, drop it in, and then try and bolt the cross member back up. or Option B, yank the motor back out, rip off my freshly FIPG'd T100 pan and swap over the old 3VZE pan, and drop it back in?

Any ideas? I thought the T100 rear sump was the ticket to an easy swap!

Heres a pic, you can see it hitting here.


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u just need to replace that oil pane with your original 3.0L pan .. pan , pick up and dipstick .

defrag4

yep, for anyone else that runs into this issue.

Left is T100 2wd pan, right is the 3vze 2wd pan

you can see the small dip here in the pan which is needed to clear the crossmember
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and with the 3VZE pan on the 3.4L motor, the pickup will not clear the pan. So I had to take the 3VZE pickup and swap it over. But like you say the pickup hits the baffle, so needed to cut a hole in the 3.4L baffle, then you can access a bolt hole and secure it up there.

The second leg of the 3VZE pickup does not have a bolt hole on my 96 T100 3.4 to bolt up too, so I just chopped it off, seems fairly secure still so I think I will be fine.

You can see here with the baffle removed where the 3VZE pickup can bolt up, the Red square has a bolt hole, the yellow leg does not and needs to be removed.




Cut a hole in the 3.4L baffle with a cutoff wheel and now we can bolt up the 3vze pickup to the 3.4 block