No idea what the pan size is. But I wonder why don't you mount to the engine mount points and transmission flange? I don't know this either but would be better to attach there.

 

I actually no longer need the information on the pan width because I'm not going to build a cradle now.

Point is....I'm just used to this board providing answers. I was surprised to not see any of my old friends replying...or anyone for that matter.

 

You are seriously mistaken.

 

I'd hazard a guess that a lot of peoples 'stangs are put in storage being the time of year it is and only giving a day to answer doesn't allow anyone to really get the information

 

Maybe is was just the time of day and day of the week? If it was a weekend I'd bet many of us would be in the garage and able to respond quickly. Like you found I guess, information like that isn't probably documemnted somewhere, someone would have to measure it for the answer.

 

We heard you went over to the darkside (Camaros and such) and aren't speaking to you anymore?
The people who saw your post didn't happen to have a pan to measure?
The people who did didn't happen to be on the forum at that particular time?
Didn't see your post?
Didn't want to go rooting around out in the cold dark garage at 2AM?
Have yet to be paid for the last 1400 questions you asked?
What?
And just where have you been and as many Mustangs as you've been through why haven't YOU been on here helping answer questions?
Hmmm?

 

:yoho:

 

I am old and did not see your post!! ha ha

Old people don't use the internet...

 

I'm hibernating.

 

I'm just older.

Basically, I have no opportunity during the week to measure a pan.

 

I spent 3 hours digging through my barn to find one, another 3 digging to find a tape measure, finally got the answer and was going to post it, but luckily you posted this second comment before me.... the measurement is 36 1/2" give or take a few!

 

I always used a few tires and blocks of wood in back of pickup to move blocks lol

 

You didn't an answer in 24 hours? Wow, I'd be extremely upset too.:shrug:
Stan

 

I have an extra BB pan that I could measure but no extra 289 pans laying around. Sorry. Brian

 

I would help you if I understand your language and know something about engine. Sorry, but zero knowlage limits me. :shrug:

 

Yep, that old " zero knowledge" comes up and bites you where it hurts

 

"Don't trust anyone over thirty". -Jack Weinberg, 1965

Mr. Weinberg is still among the living, it turns out. He's 75 now and so can no longer be trusted.

 

This is your first post since 2008 ?
Anyway, my arthritis slows down my post rate, I'll get you an answer as soon as the Naproxen kicks in.

 

I have not been on here that long at all as I have been doing my restoration since June but I have been on a ton of car and motorcycle boards for the last twenty years and this is one of the most helpful I have ever been on so I think you are wrong personally. Just having the search function has been invaluable.

 

This place is like a big family. Lots of questions, answers, dialogue, conversations and more information than was usually required just to keep the interest in old Mustangs(and other things) alive. Sometimes we agree, sometimes we don't, but there is no love loss because this is a family atmosphere.


Now, what was the original question?

 

I haven't been out here for over three years and posted today. I got tired of answering the same questions over and over again because nobody used the search function. But that oil pan width thingy was a new one.

 

Always like you posts , welcome back.

Yeah , same questions come up , but always good to have new people interested in the cars

 

I was traveling

 

I qualify as an Old Timer and I just got up off of my lazy rear end and went out to the shop where I have a 289 oil pan. Since you, the OP, don't need the measurements any longer turn off your computer now.
For the rest of the guys who may want to know the answer the dimensions are: 11-1/8" across the outer edge of the flanges at the front of the pan, 10-1/4" across the flanges at the rear and 22-1/2" from the outside edge of the front seal lip to the outside edge of the rear seal lip.

 

Well Said

 

We set our reading glasses down, forgot where we left them, and couldn't find them for a while... then lost the link to the site and had to take a few hours to figure out how to use these new fangled computers and the webernet... :wink:

Some people have lives and don't drop everything to go measure a part... patience is a thing of the past...

Its kinda hard to crawl under the car to measure, but the box the gaskets came in on my bench from a recent rebuild is 10 1/2" x 23 1/2". As the pan gaskets are the biggest a ballpark size that is probably close

Or you could look at a photo of a block, know the bore is about 4" and eyeball it (randomly selected Google image below, courtesy Mustang Tek site)

http://www.mustangtek.com/block/images/C5AE-6015-E_01_000.JPG

Looking at that I'd guess 16" for the bores + 6 max = 24" long (near the box guesstimate) and assuming the caps are about 4", looks close, its about 12" wide. (similar). Or do you need machining tolerance level dimensions?

Kinda hard to do stuff like that by yourself if you need an answer "now"?

The expectation of some of instant answers is a sure sign of the "locked to an iPhone" social-media-instant-access-dependant times we are in...

You catch more flies with honey, than vinegar...

 

I have another 10 years before I'm an old timer, so I didn't qualify to answer the question.

 

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They all left because of P.T.T.T.