I normally have my car in the garage where I have a nice dark brown rug for drips . But when I park on a beautiful concrete they are very obvious.Imagine out of sheet-metal making something that is 20” x 12” that is a half inch deep..Once a year when I change my oil , I have to take this sheet metal off and scrape or wipe off the dry oil.
At our sheet-metal club here in Sun City West Arizona they might just put a little one eighth lip
Any thoughts?
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This is what I use on my garage floor.
I've had one of those drip pans in the past, but I find a certain size Amazon Box works just as well. And not only are they free, but they're a great forensic tool for discovering where your drips are coming from.
Buy a baking sheet. Put some kitty litter in it. Forget about it for a couple years.
@DannyP posted:Buy a baking sheet. Put some kitty litter in it. Forget about it for a couple years.
LOL Have to be a pretty big cookie sheet to span pulley to nose cone, valve cover to valve cover.
Good news? I think I finally got my boot leaks solved. I was just being too cautious of over tightening them when I replaced them last year.
@dlearl476 posted:LOL Have to be a pretty big cookie sheet to span pulley to nose cone, valve cover to valve cover.
Good news? I think I finally got my boot leaks solved. I was just being too cautious of over tightening them when I replaced them last year.
Commercial baking sheets are 18” x 26”. I use one under one of my lathes as a catch pan. Works great. Available all over.
Holy Sweet Jesus I have a speedster in the garage that actually doesn't leak I'd better check to see if there's any oil in in :~)
No, that's because you never start it up..... 
That's not Wolfgang's, is it?
No, come to think of it, if he hasn't sprung to get it finished by now it's probably never gonna happen.
@dlearl476 posted:I've had one of those drip pans in the past, but I find a certain size Amazon Box works just as well. And not only are they free, but they're a great forensic tool for discovering where your drips are coming from.
I have a stack of cardboard box sheets that I use for exactly that reason.
We retapped one of the studs that was stripped in my engine, new gaskets and the works, tightened the cap nuts to 5 foot pounds and about a 1/4 turn extra, and now it wants to leak around the oil pan itself.
@Troy Sloan posted:I have a stack of cardboard box sheets that I use for exactly that reason.
Every year (until covid) they have a nice VW show at an outdoor mall venue with faux-cobblestone driveways. They pass out cardboard at the entrance. 
I felt horrible the first year I went. Unbeknownst to me, one of my axle boots had a just broken a hose clamp and I missed it with the cardboard I put under my oil pan.
