Raptor911
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All good points. I hope yours does not leak again.
One major advantage of having a metal pan is the ability to use a fumoto valve. The location of the oil pan and a plastic drain plug causes a major mess when changing your oil. The fumoto valve eliminates the mess and makes an oil change a breeze.
One major advantage of having a metal pan is the ability to use a fumoto valve. The location of the oil pan and a plastic drain plug causes a major mess when changing your oil. The fumoto valve eliminates the mess and makes an oil change a breeze.
Many other car manufacturers are using plastic oil pans i.e. BMW and others!! Plastic oil pans are not new! And, I guess they are used primarily for weight savings and because they are cheaper to mass produce. Why did Ford change mid 2018 production to a metal pan?, don’t really know! Maybe because hard core Baja users complained about warping pans due to excessive heat, maybe? However, the issue here for 80% of Raptor users that barely take their trucks off road is the “leaking oil pan” and the “leaking oil pan” is not due to a plastic pan, but it is to an assembly issue (quality control) where a batch of raptors had poor o very little rtv (adhesive) applied during the engine assembly process, causing these leaks and then to boot toppled with the crappy service departments of many dealerships that do not really take the time and effort to follow the guidelines on their workshop manuals to complete a proper repair and that is why we continue to read these horror stories!
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