do u have to lift the engine to replace the oil pan gasket or can u slide the old one out and slide the new one in?

 

You can't just slide the old one out and the new one in. That is not te correct way to replace gaskets. You should drain the oil, remove the pan, clean the mating surfaces and then apply the new gasket and reinstall the pan and fill with new oil and a new filter.

 

if you can just "slide" the old gasket out, then yeah sure, just slide the new one in.
the surfaces would have to be clean for the old one to just slide out.
I personally have never even heard of an oil pan gasket that just slid right off. They usually took a little scraping and picking and all of that to get them off.
So, to pull the oil pan off/out, you have to at the very least, raise the engine.

 

I'm guessing you've never worked on a car with a 1 piece moulded rubber oil pan gasket then

But yeah, uhh no, s-chassis generally use either a cork type gasket, or just rtv, you're gonna need to remove the pan, clean everything, apply new rtv, then reinstall.

Yes it is possible to take care of this without completely removing the engine though.

 

thank u guys for all the help i relized u would have to scrape and clean the area,to aply the new one,and put new oil in,(thats a no brainer)and yes this is my first ka,ive worked on other engines and things so it should not be that hard,thanks for the help

 

step 1 - jack up car
step 2 - loosen subframe bolts to lower it some
step 3 - remove pan

the rest should be self explanitory...

Or PM z28 ricer and ask him how much to replace it

 

Have fun with it being your first time, it's a pain

 

Yeah don't forget holding the engine up with a hoist.

 

1. Drain motor oil
2. Jack car up and put it on jack stands
3. Loosen motor mount bolts to the very end of the thread
4. Jack the engine up where the tranny and motor meets all the way up till it stops or starts to raise the car itself
5. Take off oil pan bolts, before you can take out the oil pan, you will need to take off the oil pickup thing
6. Clean off the surfaces where the oil pan and the motor meet.
7. Apply rtv liquid gasket to oil pan surface
8. Install oil pan and pickup and lightly tighten the oil pan bolts, do not tighten them all the way down yet
9. Go get a beer and chill for 30min
10. Now you can tighten the oil pan bolts
11. Replace oil filter and fill oil all the way to max indication on dipstick, start engine and let it run for a couple minutes, turn it off and check oil level again.

 

thanks for all the help guys its realy gonna be helpfull