Re: Help Oil Pan

Posted by BlackBeerd On 2011/6/16 21:47:50

Pull it/not pull it was answered for me back in high School. My brother and I inherited our Grandmothers '69 Impala that developed a leaky rear main. We had a couple of weeks of discussions about dropping the pan or pulling the engine. I won with pulling the engine. With the two of us we had it out in an hour. IMHO, that saved us six hours of cussing while crawling under that damn thing and having oil drip down our necks.

I wasn't too many years later I made an engine tilter to keep them balanced and we decided the transmission should always come with it. After a few times, the job really isn't that hard, if you have the right tools.