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clintons4
07-09-2010, 01:32 PM
Do you have to pull the motor to replace the oil pan in the MM?:confused:
ImpalaSlayer
07-09-2010, 01:37 PM
Do you have to pull the motor to replace the oil pan in the MM?:confused:
yes sir. did you run over something?
clintons4
07-09-2010, 02:35 PM
yes sir. did you run over something?

GRRRR. No i was having a friend change my oil before I left work. He decided to do it with a floor jack and jack stands instead of the lift. Floor jack got stuck and didn't roll with the car and it slipped off the floor jack. and smooshed the front section of the oil pan and pulled the power steering line out. Its not hitting the crank or journals etc. just smooshed. Just my luck...:alone:
clintons4
07-09-2010, 02:44 PM
GRRRR. No i was having a friend change my oil before I left work. He decided to do it with a floor jack and jack stands instead of the lift. Floor jack got stuck and didn't roll with the car and it slipped off the floor jack. and smooshed the front section of the oil pan and pulled the power steering line out. Its not hitting the crank or journals etc. just smooshed. Just my luck...:alone:

Just what i wanted to do. Pull the motor out with only 30k miles....nice:mad2:
RacerX
07-09-2010, 02:48 PM
No oil leaking or funny soun ds when running?
clintons4
07-09-2010, 03:03 PM
No oil leaking or funny soun ds when running?

Nope. no oil leaks or funny noises at all.
fastblackmerc
07-09-2010, 03:09 PM
GRRRR. No i was having a friend change my oil before I left work. He decided to do it with a floor jack and jack stands instead of the lift. Floor jack got stuck and didn't roll with the car and it slipped off the floor jack. and smooshed the front section of the oil pan and pulled the power steering line out. Its not hitting the crank or journals etc. just smooshed. Just my luck...:alone:

Does your friend work on cars often?

You should use the factory lifting points.

Knock wood, I've never had a vehicle slip off a floor jack.
clintons4
07-09-2010, 03:16 PM
Does your friend work on cars often?

You should use the factory lifting points.

Knock wood, I've never had a vehicle slip off a floor jack.


I know right. But it happened. I should have made him use the lift. Too late now.
BUCKWHEAT
07-09-2010, 04:55 PM
Anyone have a part number for Clintons4?
ImpalaSlayer
07-09-2010, 05:28 PM
Anyone have a part number for Clintons4?


if you get under the car, the number is actually easy to read on the forward side of the pan on the mounting flange
tbone
07-09-2010, 06:01 PM
Call your insurance company. Should be covered.........unless you don't have full coverage. It WAS an accident after all!
TooManyFords
07-10-2010, 04:26 AM
Might be easier to drop the cross member with the suspension than pull the motor.

Of course, I've never done that before.... :D
Spectragod
07-10-2010, 05:28 AM
I know that you can unbolt the motor mounts and lift the motor slightly on a SOHC to change the pan, I would certainly try that before I pulled the motor, then I'd kill my "friend".
justbob
07-10-2010, 11:56 AM
I know that you can unbolt the motor mounts and lift the motor slightly on a SOHC to change the pan, I would certainly try that before I pulled the motor, then I'd kill my "friend".
+ over 9000
clintons4
07-11-2010, 07:17 AM
Call your insurance company. Should be covered.........unless you don't have full coverage. It WAS an accident after all!


Yea except I have $1000 deductible. lol
clintons4
07-11-2010, 07:20 AM
Might be easier to drop the cross member with the suspension than pull the motor.

Of course, I've never done that before.... :D


Ok, is that possible?
ImpalaSlayer
07-11-2010, 07:41 AM
Ok, is that possible?

yeah except the whole motor is going to come with it lol
Spectragod
07-11-2010, 07:51 AM
yeah except the whole motor is going to come with it lol

Not if you unbolt the motor from the mounts and suspend it.
musclemerc
07-11-2010, 08:32 AM
Either way you will end up using an engine hoist so just get it up enough to get under and replace the pan.
ImpalaSlayer
07-11-2010, 08:38 AM
Not if you unbolt the motor from the mounts and suspend it.

could do that i suppose, seems like youd have a lot of crap in your way whlile your doing that though.
LeoVampire
07-11-2010, 11:24 AM
There is a cross brace you can buy or rent that expands out to the width of the engine compartment and is held up by the lips on the inside of the fenders.

You can then hang a chain from it and use bolts on the motor to supend it while droping the lower cross member.

We use these to hold up front wheel drive engines and tranny's when we have to drop out the lower cross member.

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