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I haven't owned a singe car\truck that had an oil pan look like that and I have lived in MA my whole life and we put crap all over our roads in the winter.
I had a 2005 dodge dakota that looked like that after 8 years of Syracuse salt. When I traded it in, it was weeping.
Sounds like a Dodge/Ram problem. The pans should be aluminum and not rust. Sounds like Ram/Dodge cheaper out and used steel. That's odd and unfortunate.
Most manufacturers use stamped steel oil pans. Cost savings.
It is a 6.0 hour job and then about $400 in parts(pan, gasket, oil and filter). Drop the front diff out or raise the engine are the options. Service information says to drop front diff.
It's stamped steel. That's the word you are looking for. If it was coated properly, it should hold up. General maintenance z keep an eye on it during oil changes. That should be often enough to catch it before it gets too bad. If needed, hit it with some steel wool or a wire brush, then spray it with paint or other protective coating like POR15
"Deep drawn" are the words I chose and meant.
I meant term, not word. Basically arguing semantics at this pointThat's two words, and I wasn't looking.
Was poking a bit of fun, but from a tooling perspective "deep drawn" implies a lot more than just "stamped". Stamping usually implies basic tooling like punching out a two dimensional shape. You might form some shallow dimples at the same time and call it embossing, but drawing implies pulling and stretching sheets around corners into a shape with significant amounts of a third dimension, and it works best with alloys that are both soft and tear-resistant. As steels go, that can also mean not rust-resistant, and FCA was probably also going for cheap.
If the rust wasn't too bad, the repairs you and others mentioned would work just fine.
