its not the hard way, its the "It's cheap, It's Sunday night and I need it now" way....grinding a hex on the end of a piece of all-thread...spin clockwise and hold on! :)
Well I was half right in the valve seals petrified and crumbling into the pan and pickup, dead wrong on the pickup being so stuffed that it could not pick up oil. When I install the pan, I deliberately turn the oil pickup up to contact the pan and put a 1/8 piece of wood on top (motor inverted on stand) and put the pan on with no gaskets. Ill push the pan to the rails and that will push the pickup down to the right clearance. lift the pan, remove the shim and add gaskets and torque. Dont buy the M72HV oil pump, you dont need its extra capacity.
