Maybe this will make you feel more comfortable about it:
Keep in mind the oil is INSIDE, away from the flames.
Oil will self-ignite if you get it hot enough, but there is such a mass of oil and cast steel there that your piddly little oxy-acetylene rig could not possibly get it all that hot.
Not only that, but the hot oil would have to have air to burn. Heating at the bottom of the sump like they were, even if a little oil at the bottom DID get hot enough it's smothered by all the other oil above it.
Even if you burned through the rush of oil would just extinguish the torch.
Heating on a freshly drained sump, yeah, that could get messy. There's just a thin coating of oil on the castings, and lots of atomized oil in the air.
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