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Hey guys im getting ready to Change the Oil pan gasket because i beleive it is leaking. Well as i was reading through the Chiltons book, it says i will need an engine hoist to life the engine up and replace the oil pan....does anyone know a simpler way?


Any help would be appreciated.


Roz

Yes. GET THE FACTORY SERVICE MANUALS/CD!!!

Chilton, Haynes, etc all suck!!!

You can do the pan with the engine in the car. IIRC only 2 bolts require some fanagling but are doable.

Thanks greg for the advise...you have restored some of my confidence that ford does thing easy.



I will go get the CD and take care of it.


thanks again,
Roz

The factory manuals are better, but on the oil pan gasket replacement my 96 Factory manual says to use a three bar engine support. It's not needed. Thats what's great about this site, some one always seems to know a better way. There is a link on a oil pan gasket replacement under Duratec Maintainance, go back to 4/20/03. Start soaking your exhaust bolts with some penetrating oil. Could be the hardest part of the job, removing the Y-pipe at the converter junction.

My oil pan gasket saga.

Someone else's oil pan gasket saga.

No need to lift the motor, drop the subframe, whatever. Take off the y-pipe (watch those rusty bolts!) and all of the oil pan bolts except one are easily accessed. For the tough one, remove the front passenger wheel and the splash guard. That last bolt is easily accessed with a box end wrench. Be neat about cleaning, dab on some of that black RTV where the front cover meets the block on the oil pan gasket surface, pop in a new gasket, torque those oil pan bolts to spec (30 ft-lb for the oil pan to transaxle bolts, 18.5 ft-lb for the oil pan to block bolts), pop the y-pipe in, and you're off - hopefully leak free. This isn't every minute detail, but you get the gist. Good luck!