Oil level in Hardin 11qt pan
 

I have 11 qt Hardin marine oil pans with melling billet pumps. 4.25 stroke. I’m using universal lokar dipsticks and just trying to find a safe
zone to mark the stick. I realize number of quarts will vary with hoses, coolers etc.



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Can't just put 11Qts of oil in, fire motor and mark the sticks?

Full should be (typically) Just under the windage tray.

thats the part that kinda sucks is I had the speed shop assemble and they just put 9 qts in as I see it’s written on the pan but have no clue where that puts it at. I should probably put a call into Hardin and see what they say. I’d think should be 11 qts plus a quart in addition for the hoses etc but wanna be certain within reason.

tks

There seems to be some evidence that running oil a quart or so low even with a windage tray increases hp and reduces aeration

The pan doesn’t have any extra plugs in the side for oil returns that you could get a look through?

here’s a few pics with part number. If anyone can identify appreciate it. It has 2 - 1/4” pipe ports on left and 3 on the right. I rarely call tech support but did Hardin today and the guy was a complete jerk and rude and said it’s not one of their pans…. OK 😂

Does it look like a 10 or 12?

Told him I did purchase new from an OSO member which I did and then I got the whole oh you bought from some site on the internet! Don’t waste my time.

They may have been NOS #755-8121

number was upside down on the right side. Did a search on 755 and 766 etc and didn’t come up with anything.

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checking that now.

That is an old eickert pan that Hardin Marine manufactured. They were discontinued back in 2014. It is a 10QT Gen 4 Pan.

Here you go getrdunn :)


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