uhhh... you can use the duct tape to keep the jb weld from running as it sets.....

 

that works.

 

I think that Jeg's sells a chrome street pan that is reinforced.

 

Yeah JBwelding the whole in the pan would be the way to go for a quick fix. Im curious to see how big the hole is. Is there any way you can get a picture.??

 

its like a virtical cut...... like........ for example...

take a metal cutting sawzall blade... and face it towards your face, so that the pointy way is facing your eye... its exactly that tall and wide........ so like an inch tall by about 5 millimeters wide

 

Once, deep in the dark mists of a long-vanished and nearly forgotten past, I was doing a cam swap. I had trouble getting the lifters out of their bores, as usual for a motor with lots of miles on it. I finally got them up far enough that I could get the cam out; then after it was out of the way, I pushed the last few down into the cam bore, and took them out. All except one that was neaar the front of the motor: I dropped it as it slid out of the lifter bore.

I heard it fall through the motor, hit a couple of rods and stuff on the way down, then I heard a reassuring tin-can kind of sound when it landed in the oil pan. I was sure all was OK, so I breathed a sigh of relief, and put the new stuff in and buttoned it back up. When I was all done, I reached in the window and cranked it up; it fired right off of course; and after about 10 seconds of running, I heard this funny "thooookkk" kind of sound. I shut if off and looked around, couldn't see anything.

It had the oil leak from hell on the test drive. I brought it back and put it up on stands and got up under it, and there, sticking out the right side of the pan about even with the #4 rod, was the bottom of a lifter. It had evidently fallen onto the baffle at the front of the pan, must have shaken loose when the motor cranked up, and rolled back and got poinked by the rod journal.

I pulled the lifter out of the motor through that pefectly clean .842" hole; covered it up with a piece of thin sheet aluminum that I could bend to fit the punched-out hole, spooged the sheet metal on there with about half a tube of silicone, and then drove the car for about 30,000 more miles before I traded it in. It never leaked a drop.