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It's finished! I got my oil pan gasket replaced, everything back together and the truck is running!
Whenever I do a job like this on the 60 I hope to capture some key learnings. My hope is that there is some guy that comes along behind me and finds it helpful. I have learned a ton from all of those on MUD and so I hope others can pick up a few things too.
So here we go...
1. All of my major projects on the truck have been from the top until this one. I've decided that I much prefer to work from the top of the truck than the bottom! haha. I have a feeling I'm not alone in that. About half way through the project I decided to borrow a buddy's jack stands to give myself a little more room. I recommend getting your truck up as much as possible to give yourself the room you'll need to move around.
2. Getting the bolts out of the oil pan is easy. Getting the oil pan off of the bottom of the block takes some work. I used the bottle jack method where you position the bottle jack against the frame with a small piece of 2X4 against the oil pan. Slowly crank it and put pressure on the oil pan. It didn't give the first time so moved it to another location on the oil pan and repeated the same task. Then I moved to other side of the oil pan and did it again. After probably 4 times it eventually popped off.
3. The lip of oil pan had the gasket on it caked on pretty good. You can see it in some of the pics I posted. I used a drill with a wire brush drill bit to get the old gasket off. I thought that a putty knife would be enough but this stuff is on there good! I then wet sanded the lip to get any fine pieces that I missed.
4. Now to the block where the oil pan was located. As I said, it is tight under there! It was tough to use the wire brush drill bit because it was so tight but where I could I did. It didn't work in the arch sections and other areas so I used a flathead with a mallet to pry the old gasket off. That took a lot of slow patient work but it eventually came off.
5. Now to put the gasket on. I had the one piece gasket that I got from CruiserCorps. I lined it up on the oil pan and merged a couple of methods that I read on MUD. I tied loops through the gasket and the oil pan to hold it in place. I then put black RTV between the gasket and the oil pan going on the outside of the bolt holes. I put some bolts in the holes to hold it in place. The gasket in the arch was about impossible to get to stay in place and the two ends beside the arch kept pulling up. I realized that the RTV would not dry right without the gasket on it so I decided to put it on the truck as is.
6. Getting that gasket to line up correctly on the arch ends was a challenge but the loops that I tied helped a ton. I pulled on those loops to align the gasket hole with the hole on the oil pan and then I could work the bolt through it. The arch by the front took me about an hour but again with patience I was able to get it on there.
7. I torqued it down to spec, put the clutch cover plate back on and filled her up with oil.
She seems to be holding oil alright now but I'll keep an eye on her over the next several days.
Now to drive her for a bit before I start my next project!
Whenever I do a job like this on the 60 I hope to capture some key learnings. My hope is that there is some guy that comes along behind me and finds it helpful. I have learned a ton from all of those on MUD and so I hope others can pick up a few things too.
So here we go...
1. All of my major projects on the truck have been from the top until this one. I've decided that I much prefer to work from the top of the truck than the bottom! haha. I have a feeling I'm not alone in that. About half way through the project I decided to borrow a buddy's jack stands to give myself a little more room. I recommend getting your truck up as much as possible to give yourself the room you'll need to move around.
2. Getting the bolts out of the oil pan is easy. Getting the oil pan off of the bottom of the block takes some work. I used the bottle jack method where you position the bottle jack against the frame with a small piece of 2X4 against the oil pan. Slowly crank it and put pressure on the oil pan. It didn't give the first time so moved it to another location on the oil pan and repeated the same task. Then I moved to other side of the oil pan and did it again. After probably 4 times it eventually popped off.
3. The lip of oil pan had the gasket on it caked on pretty good. You can see it in some of the pics I posted. I used a drill with a wire brush drill bit to get the old gasket off. I thought that a putty knife would be enough but this stuff is on there good! I then wet sanded the lip to get any fine pieces that I missed.
4. Now to the block where the oil pan was located. As I said, it is tight under there! It was tough to use the wire brush drill bit because it was so tight but where I could I did. It didn't work in the arch sections and other areas so I used a flathead with a mallet to pry the old gasket off. That took a lot of slow patient work but it eventually came off.
5. Now to put the gasket on. I had the one piece gasket that I got from CruiserCorps. I lined it up on the oil pan and merged a couple of methods that I read on MUD. I tied loops through the gasket and the oil pan to hold it in place. I then put black RTV between the gasket and the oil pan going on the outside of the bolt holes. I put some bolts in the holes to hold it in place. The gasket in the arch was about impossible to get to stay in place and the two ends beside the arch kept pulling up. I realized that the RTV would not dry right without the gasket on it so I decided to put it on the truck as is.
6. Getting that gasket to line up correctly on the arch ends was a challenge but the loops that I tied helped a ton. I pulled on those loops to align the gasket hole with the hole on the oil pan and then I could work the bolt through it. The arch by the front took me about an hour but again with patience I was able to get it on there.
7. I torqued it down to spec, put the clutch cover plate back on and filled her up with oil.
She seems to be holding oil alright now but I'll keep an eye on her over the next several days.
Now to drive her for a bit before I start my next project!
