Originally posted by 98Ford2L:
How hard was it? I don't have a lift or anything to lift the engine up with, but I might be able to borrow the latter.
In the hayne's it sounds like more of a pain than I thought it would be, like removing the exhaust, and a bunch of other stuff. Is all that necessary?



I was doing more then just the oil pan when I did mine. I had the subframe out already because I was changing the tie rods and boxing in the front LCAs. It would probably be possible if you were to lift the engine so you could change the gaskets that way. I havent tried it that way though.

Originally posted by 98Ford2L:
So are there two oil pan gaskets? It looks like there are, and if so is it easier to change the lower one, and can I only change the lower one? It looks like the lower one is the one that's leaking.



Pep Boys sells some UV dye (~$5). You could clean the oil pan, put that in, drive for a little while and see if the blacklight would show you where its coming from.

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