Clearance needed to get oil pan off? Will this work?
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Clearance needed to get oil pan off? Will this work? If i took off my LS1 heads off my camaro and jacked up the motor by the trans, would that give me enough clearance to drop the oil pan?
Last edited by csmc711; Sep 14, 2006 at 08:15 AM.
on an F-Body? i'm gonna have to guess no. i dropped a lifter down my motor on accident a few weeks ago when i did another cam swap...and i couldn't get my pan all the way out. even with getting the pan undone, and dropping the oil pump and pickup, i still couldn't get mine out. i just had to slide the pan to the left and to the right to get my hands up and in to get the bastard lifters out. (dropped the windage tray there too) anyways, this is what i was working with ....
youre also gonna have to drop the k member down as far as it will go. Problem is the pick up tube sits in the bottom of the pan in a hole barely big enough for it, so you have to drop it far enough to clear that, then you can angle it out.
PS i hope you took your heads off for another reason then just changing your oil pan. cause if not you did it the hard way!!
PS i hope you took your heads off for another reason then just changing your oil pan. cause if not you did it the hard way!!
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I had to take the vave covers off because they were leaking. When I got in there, the rockers, valve spring and pushrod was rusted up a little bit, right under where the hood seal lip is. Since everything on this car is fawked up, I am thinking, while I have the covers off, to take the heads off and put them back on to make sure they were installed properly as I have a 9/97 camaro and the heads are 241 castings from another year. Well, I figure, if I have the heads off a 100k engine, might as well replace the rings also, right? Hmmm, but I need to drop the oil pan too, so...........
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