I didn’t find dropping the pan that hard. BUT, the 4 bolts on the width side (rear end side) needed to have a swivel socket as my extension conflicts with the transmission cross-member, that slowed me down a bit. And since I worked on this just on jack stands with limited space, upon removal of all the bolts and the pan was now free there was still a good amount of old ATF on pan and I had to balance it down with just one hand, had to concentrate a bit there to avoid spilling oil all over me.How difficult was it to drop the pan?
The 4 magnets seemed dirty enough to justify the pan drop.
Did you use a gasket or the Toyota fipg sealant?
Nope didn’t use fipg anymore, the new gasket held up pretty well.