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Oiling issue

The escape oil pans have additional baffling. They are pretty inexpensive. I bought one shipped for $59 last week from Rockauto. You could try to add your own baffling inside your oil pan if you want to but you would have a hard time finding anyone who thought it was a good idea...Maybe they only way I would consider it is by custom welding additional baffles onto the stainless windage tray.
Thats a lot of trouble for limited benefit though.
 
Thank you.
Do you have a pic of the old oil pan internals? It would be interesting to see the differences.
 
Thank you.
Do you have a pic of the old oil pan internals? It would be interesting to see the differences.


Here's a 99 Cougar 2.5 pan from an ebay listing:
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Here's an Escape pan on the left and a Taurus pan on the right:
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Wow, that's significant, it looks like the round "sump" around the oil pickup has increased in diameter, and the area of the whole sump covered by the baffle plate has increased by quite a lot (second picture).
That's a worthwhile $50 spent.
It looks like Ford made a lot of tweaks to this oil pan over the years.
 
I believe I have the Taurus oil pan in mine, which should be better than the original stock, but is there significant benefit in upgrading to the Escape pan?
 
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