The exhaust has yet to be installed.    ;)    (Am in middle of an engine
swap)

Don: your ABA came with a windage tray or the OEM plastic baffle attached
to the oil pump pick up?

The windage tray I'm using adds at least 1/8" between pan and block vs just
the stock ABA pan; the rubber gasket is built into lip of tray. That plus
at least 1/8" more thickness at the diesel oil pan lip and it looks to me
like a longer bolt would be wise. Certainly longer than the ABA pan bolt.
But then maybe the rubber seal will compress a fair amount. Can't recall
the web page but I recall reading a note on bolt length regarding the type
of tray I'm using. I checked depth of blind holes pan bolts to.

I don't know what pan bolts came with my diesel parts + 1.8 gas engine.

On Friday, November 18, 2016, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:

Agree, the windage gasket in my ABA..a 93 Jetta, is the one from the ABA
> stock motor and doesn't take anything special, other than some care when
> snugging up the bolts to NOT squeeze and distort the pan and cause drips.
> When under the motor messing with the pan, take note of the exhaust system
> and it's attachment.
>
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 6:58 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > I installed  windage tray in my inline four. Used same bolts. Windage
> tray
> > gasket was rubber or the like, and same thickness as stock gasket.
> >
> > Just for the rubber gasket I'd put one in .
> >
> > Alistair
> >
> > > On Nov 17, 2016, at 6:32 PM, Neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > >
>
> > > On the topic, to anyone else installing a windage tray, the seal and
> > > pan combined obviously require a longer bolt.
>

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