oil pan leak repair question

[91supra7m]

to anyone who's had a leaky oil pan what'd you fix it with? new gasket, toyota gasket maker, rtv or what? Also did you pull motor or drop front end or what?

thanks

 

[benchwarmer]

FIPG, the cork gaskets suck. You can get the pan out if you lift the engine with a hoist. I'm not saying I would recommend it, I'm just saying it can be done.

 

[pln]

i dropped the subframe and lifted enginge just enough to hold it in place. For gasket i used loctight black silicon.

 

[hvyman]

use fipg from Toyota. easiest bet would be to just remove the connections from the ecu(for the harness), remove the fan/clutch/radiator/power steering/ a/c, unbolt the trans member, unbolt the engine mounts and brackets and remove engine. reseal and re-install engine. should only take about 1-2 hours to remove and same for install and a hell of a lot less to remove than dropping the sub frame.

 

[pln]

use fipg from Toyota. easiest bet would be to just remove the connections from the ecu(for the harness), remove the fan/clutch/radiator/power steering/ a/c, unbolt the trans member, unbolt the engine mounts and brackets and remove engine. reseal and re-install engine. should only take about 1-2 hours to remove and same for install and a hell of a lot less to remove than dropping the sub frame.

Its up to you really. Transmissionbolt are really timetaking. I hate them. Allso you have to line up the enginge to get it the splines in when re-installing. and then you have all this "remove the fan/clutch/radiator/power steering/ a/c,"
1-2 hours.. for all this??
I belive that when I see it.

 

[mkiiSupraMan18]

^ I believe he was saying to pull the engine/trans together... 2 hours isn't a stretch at all. If you suck and/or have never done it, it might take you three. :icon_bigg

To be fair, he did forget about the fuel lines,clutch slave, speedo cable,drive shaft, and taking out the shifter/radiosurround from inside the car... actually, quite a few steps were forgotten... Heater hoses, ground wires, heater control plug from the harness, the harness for the alarm horn... brake booster vac line, throttle/cruise cable, oil cooler lines... and thats just off the top of my head.

 

[Jeff Lange]

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