I can see the top of the drain plug on the side. No oil from there. These pictures I think are more in the centre. At least I think that's where my probe was.
OIL GONE! ZIP! NADA!
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The hole you circled, the center one at the bottom of the pan, is intended to remain open. It does not have anything to do with the wet oil area of the pan but is instead a path for errant liquids inside the flywheel housing to have a way out.
I took a close look at my spare engine currently sitting level on a test bed and filled with oil. The hole is clear through the solid pan flange into the flywheel housing and remains bone dry.Last edited by ndutton; 07-03-2018, 08:21 AM.Neil
1977 Catalina 30
San Pedro, California
prior boats 1987 Westsail 32, 1970 Catalina 22
Had my hands in a few others
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Originally posted by ndutton View PostThe hole you circled, the center one at the bottom of the pan, is intended to remain open. It does not have anything to do with the wet oil area of the pan but is instead a path for errant liquids inside the flywheel housing to have a way out.
I took a close look at my spare engine currently sitting level on a test bed and filled with oil. The hole is clear through the solid pan flange into the flywheel housing and remains bone dry.
As Neil points out, that hole doesn't get a plug or bolt.
It's open and dry.
As we've already pointed out, the drain plug is on the Starter/Alt side and forward. Right behind the flywheel.
Which is an interesting location because that is almost the highest point in the engine rather than the lowest.-Jerry
'Lone Ranger'
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1978 RANGER 30
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I installed mine on the hard (it came in pieces, in boxes). I used a come-along in about the middle of the boom, with a halyard supporting the boom in the same place, and got it into the cockpit. Adjusted placement of the come-along and halyard and lowered it down through the companionway. Never an issue in doing it and never stressed anything. I did most of it by myself, with my wife helping keep it from spinning as it went through the companionway.Steve Demore
S/V Doin' It Right
Pasadena, MD
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