Oil Pan

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The job is done.  took about 3 hours.  You can indeed jack up the motor enough to pull down the pan and replace the gasket.  If you were replacing a RTV gasket it would not save you any time at all as scraping the pan while under the car would take forever.  Its a pain in the butt to do even without scraping the pan.  Getting enough gasket on the back of the pan toward the transmission was quite a feat as was threading all the bolts under the car to put it back up.  Hope it holds once the RTV cures and I have no leak.

Thanks for the tips.

thanks so much for sharing that.
we most never have to do this but is good do know
most cards the pan and block need 2hours of RTV scraping  ,  a very hard job, tedious. to get it all  off. for sure pan fully off engine.
best engine upside down for sure.
and that space behind the pan, omg,  tight with some trans. engine in car , trans connected.
but thanks for the effort,  just removing the gasket.
also the pan can be warped, very easy, over-tightening the cork gasket.   the best gasket of all BTW, is Neoprene.  (hard to find but is best) lasts forever.
thanks again for sharing!!!