Oil Pan Gaskets...

[StereoInstaller1]

SUCK!

That is all.

[payney8]

gasket maker = win. U's a few dabs of it to stick it onto the block/ sump whichever u like.

[StereoInstaller1]

Believe it or not, I use spray glue.

Just a shitty messy job, as I don't have a pressure washer here, and the poor old pile of shit has been spewing a quart every 40 miles or so for a week or three.

Thank god for lifts and air...

[AndrewBird]

Yeah, that isn't a fun job. Josh and I did it without a lift and I wouldn't want to do it again.

[Aptyp]

i use oil resistant silicone. Touch a little of it all around perimeter just to get gasket to stick and not move around. Then it's a breeze installing it.

I still wouldn't want to be doing it over.

[payney8]

yeah gasket maker is better silicone is a waffleswaffleswaffleswaffles to pull off.

[B. Tyler]

Ahhh this is the next maint. item I am going to take care of. I am losing about a few drops an hour right now. It is not sounding like a good time...

[87e30]

I'm doing this for my 24v swap right now. Great.

Anyone recommend a specific (cheap) gasket sealer/sticky thing product?

[daniel]

the gasket on an M42 is easy :)

[Nic01101011]

i replaced oil pans in a blazing hot apartment parking lot alone
what a fun weekend that was

[StereoInstaller1]

I'm doing this for my 24v swap right now. Great.

Anyone recommend a specific (cheap) gasket sealer/sticky thing product?

Sersly, use spray glue to hold the gasket in place, it totally removes the whole "slippy gasket" bullshit.

Mine was a nasty whore of a job because of the mess. The job itself was simple.

Here is the deal: I was SUPPOSED to take over a shop in Tacoma, so I moved to Gig Harbor...then the (assfuck needledick fuckhead) backed out on the deal we had discussed, and so I was still working in Redmond....so like 3 hours a day commuting on my never-been-apart near 300,000 mile motor.

About a week later, I started leaking a bit of oil, like a quart a week. I figured it was basically like cam seal, half moons, oil pump, whatever, fix it later kind of shit.

A few weeks later, the fucking thing starts DUMPING oil, like a quart every 50 miles or so. Fortunately, this was after I moved to Issaquah.

Got the thing up on a lift and could not see the leak because of the mess.

I got under it and looked carefully while running. I found a fucking RIVER of oil running down the side of the bellhousing, starting about even with the crank.

Oh shit, fucking rear main. Oh well, I can drive the van. FUCK!!!!

So I pulled the inspection cover and conned Matt (from WestWerks, the guy with the "Dreamworks" M3) to peek. He found that the oil pan gasket had basically slipped out of the place where it is supposed to be, and was actually rubbing on the flyweel!

So now the whole "lift motor, drop subframe" routine ensued, pulled the fucking mess apart (YUK! SO damn much OIL!) and pulled the pan.

The gasket came off in flakes.

Clean, fix, tighten exhaust (no leaks for the first time since I have owned it!) just all kinds of little crap like that.

It took me an hour and a half to get the pan back on and torqued. Not because it was hard to do, or even fucked up...my arms and shoulders just fucking burn from whatever muscle condition I have. I literally had tears rolling down my face from the pain, but the shit had to get done.

Right about then I stopped (again, FUCK!) and made this thread, but it hurt too bad to type.

I really wish I had gotten pics. 22 years and 289,000 miles means you need to do your damn pan gasket.

The beauty here is that the car runs SO much better. Much better torque, of course the exhaust sounds better too, not having a leak up front and all...but the power is WAY better!

So yeah. Got to bed at 3:30 AM, up at 10:00, gonna go get back to work.

Luke

[surfgoheels13]

I have to replace the rear main seal while I'm doing an auto to manual swap. Bentley says to "pull" the seal out once the carrier is out and to "press" the new seal in. Do I need any special tools for this, or will a screw driver work?

[twothrees]

My version without sealant:
I attached the gasket to the block with several zip ties (loosely and used very thin ties). I then got my pan in place and started to screw the bolts in. I was able to carefully snip the ties as I tightened the pan.

[miles318]

^just did it today, used a screwdriver/hammer, worked great

[nando]

E30 oil pan gaskets are cork, aren't they?

no oil pan gasket FTW