Originally posted by DanG:
Now here's the weird part- My '99 Cougar came stock with the baffled oil pan- So I don't quite understand why those with oiling concerns are panicing over their oil pans not being baffled- Was this a change for '99? Were the oil pans completely open prior to '99?

TIA.




There were changes to the pan (and I believe the way it is baffled) on later Duratecs. From the beginning they all came with some sort of baffling on them, so at no point were they completely open.