Bell Housing to road clearnace

[Tommy]

If I bought a car with a scatter shield like that, and if it looked like the lowest part of the oil pan was as low or lower, I'd be very concerned. My thinking is that the impact on the scatter shield looks to have been very strong (well above idle speed). If the oil pan was struck similarly (and subsequently replaced with a new pan) the impact may have driven it to strike the oil pump and/or crankshaft. If the oil pan was damaged, I'd like to know what all was inspected and by whom.

BTW, the scatter shield is the lowest part of the drivetrain on my Cheetah. Consequently I welded steel runners on the frame rails on either side around that low point. As I expect to be moving slowly over any obstacles, they are there more to give an early warning of low clearance than to actually protect anything. I just don't want an abrupt leading edge of the drivetrain to provide that warning.