Kevko small block oil pan (M301) in '72 BBody, installation tips?

[Dibbons]

Advertised on Ebay as a six quart pan, but is made to handle five quarts in the sump, plus whatever the oil filter may hold.

Is the factory 340 windage tray recommend with this oil pan? Would the windage tray even fit? What are you guys doing?

I'm glad the pickup (M301-1) has a bracing tab, but I wonder how the tab attaches. The only place I can think of is on one of the heads of a main cap bolt, but that seems a little weird. Unless it uses one of the tiny windage tray bolts? I don't know.

Any clearance problems around the K member or elsewhere? The instructions say the oil gasket flange may not be perfectly flat, but don't worry about it, after tightening down it will conform.

 

[Dibbons]

I just found this on the FABO web site, makes sense.

"I called Kevko and they said it is intended to be double nutted. They say the people running bolts on their main caps should weld a stud to the end of the bolt for the tab to connect to. I dropped the oil pump and pickup off at the shop so they can move the long stud to the correct cap before final line honing."