Oil Pump Gasket and Crank Seal replacement

[Land Speeder]

I'm losing massive amounts of oil on hiway trips and the oil pump seal was leaking badly, so a few friends helped me dive into this job...
I used Zane's write up and followed others experiences as well, but I opted to not drain the oil.... it dripped a whole lot more than we thought...


prior to pressure washing...

terrible pic, don't know why... but it was a secret location anyway... extremely nice place to work...

oil seal.... you so nasty

The fan shroud broke getting it out... the upper radiator hose should come off, but I didn't so I just broke my shroud... pic from the top after everything outta the way

Hey clean oil pump cover

this is easy with a lift... the upper most on the driver side was hung up like two dogs and had to be drilled out... easy work with a right angle drill, sawed off bit and easy out... all other 6 screws came out extremely easy...

terrible pic, but the bad screw half way through butchering it...

that gritty stuff on the bit did not help that poor screw...

cover off.... son-of-ah-b...

So you "can" do this without draining the oil... but expect the above...

I didn't take a pic after that oops... but the old gasket was so bad that some of it was on the cover... yes, broken to pieces... if you get the chance, please do this job...
I opted to use the long 14mm socket in the flywheel to tighten the crank bolt back... it was extremely easy with every professional tool known to man available to me...

I'll crawl under tomorrow to peep for leaks... I do believe my front arch of the oil pan is leaking... then again, it could've been my oil pump seal dripping down to it...

 

[murf]

Watch out for that front timing cover leak...If so, you have to remove the #1 oil pan OR remove the head to get it off. Not a small job....I just had to pull everything off the 97 40th to reseal every seal on the motor: front/top/bottom. All the seals were dry and brittle. Stopped the darn leaks though

 

[NorCalDoug]

I guess one advantage of the oil leak is that it seems to keep the rusting down a bit...


nice work

 

[Land Speeder]

you right about that! last night we did my friend's rear brakes on his 96 and I think everyone of his seals is dripping, it's got 3XX,XXX miles on it too as well as hauled import cars on the interstate for literally 70K of those miles...

My truck has zero rust btw... if those pics above look like rust, it's not, it's southern red clay that will not come off the "undercoating' that is on everything under truck.... i have no idea why a southern rig would get a sprayed under coating... I tried pressure washing it off some weeks ago, but only got half of it... it looks horrible.