This was the first time I'd used JB Weld for this sort of thing, and I was really impressed by the way it handle the heat cycles from cold to hot to cold every time we drove it. I probably could have gone thousands of miles with that repair, but it really was a big compound fracture in the cast aluminum.a hairline crack it was not. It held for a week with no weeping until I got the new oil pan installed. I had no worries about draining any oil prior to the repair.I'd drained it all out first by pulling the plug, and when it fell off the jack, the rest drained out the hole I broke into the cast pan.:stupid: I managed to pull the pieces together without breaking them completely off, cleaned it completely with brake cleaner, rough sanded it for adhesion, cleaned it again.and on went the JB Weld. The broken metal was in the shape of a letter "T" (where the aluminum was fractured). Luckily, it didn't break the oil pump pickup. I had our new Ody up on a jack for its first oil change, and that el-cheapo 2-ton jack twisted, broke, and impaled the oil pan. Npeters, I haven't fixed a tranny housing with JB Weld, but I did take care of a smashed 2002 EX oil pan with JB Weld.
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