My build thread (Gnar Gnar 2.0)

[mr_miles]

copy pasta from MI :p

so lets say I put the car on jack stands. I dislike how I was not able to do that, as they're at a friends house.....but that's neither here nor there now :p

Step one: Drain oil. I'll pull the filter off later.

Step two: start removing oil pan bolts. Easy enough, except for one stud (there are two studs with nuts on them, I'm assuming for "make this job easier" when you put a new pan on. that stud had hit the center divider and bent. pulled the whole stud out, replaced with bolt.



start moving around to the other bolts, easy easy easy....until these two.



Doesn't look so bad...right? How about this angle.



Hmm......Cant get a wrench on it. cant get a socket on it. it's steel, so I cant force the socket on to bend it. My best decided course of action is to try and bend the lip of the pan and then get a wrench on the end. about two hours of that and I gave up on that idea - working upside down on the ground slows me down, okay?!

Hammer mode = engaged. if i cant get a wrench on it the only way to do it is to bend the pan back. All I had was a regular nail hammer, way to light. Luckily I was given a gift card to NAPA, so I ran down there and picked up a 2.5 pound sledge, and some gasket maker while I was there in case I couldn't find my tube I already had.

THOR MODE ENGAGED. Even the almighty hammer of THOR is no match for this dreadful oil pan. I ponder what to do momentarily. tried using a drift to no avail as well. Ponder more.

Drill time. went out on a limb and drilled a few holes around the area that was folded over the bolts to weaken it, still wasnt working to well, tried pliers, more drifts and more Thor, but wasn't working. ended up damaging the bolts so I backed off.

Last ditch effort - bend the entire pan around the bolts. slowly I start pulling on the pan after draining the remaining oil. lucky me, it started bending exactly where I had hoped! In case anyone is wondering why I would do that, if you bend metal back and forth enough it'll crack and tear.

few minutes of that and I heard a scary *POP*. one of the bolt holes an the pan ripped! YAY. then it was easy from there. just spun it to get the last one off. Everything up in the engine looks great. the oil pickup tube didn't get touched. Dry it all off, and put some RTV on the new pan. slapped that beauty back on and tomorrow after it's dry i'll fill it up with oil!




Here's my favorite picture.



Next step, alignment.