Oil Pan Removal

[340inabbody]

On my 340 I removed the steering center link. All the pan bolts.

Pan is loose but somehow connected near the rear main seal. I can’t see any bolts up in there nor can I find pan diagrams in the FSM.

Are there two bolts in there or a lip it’s getting hung up on?

Any tricks to disengage the pan from the rear of the motor?

Thanks,
Ron

 

[340inabbody]

I also removed the trans shield.

 

[junkyardhero]

is it loose and just not coming down? if so, then it may be held up on the pick up screen.

if it's still tight, either you forgot a bolt (or two) or they used "right stuff" and cemented the pan in place. there are two bolts right up against the part of the rail where the lip begins.

 

[340inabbody]

Pan is loose but I think the headers are in fng way on one side and the side. I am trying to slide if forward just a bit but can’t because it feels like it’s loosely attached only at the rear but all the bolts are out.

 

[junkyardhero]

Pan is loose but I think the headers are in fng way on one side and the side. I am trying to slide if forward just a bit but can’t because it feels like it’s loosely attached only at the rear but all the bolts are out.

if the pan is baffled it's probably hung up on the pick up

 

[340inabbody]

if the pan is baffled it's probably hung up on the pick up

Oh geeze how do I get it off. Ive been wiggling that pan about for an hour. Its free everywhere but the back by the trans. There IS A RUBBER SEAL back there. Is that part of the pan?

 

[junkyardhero]

the rubber is the seal between the pan and the block. it may be cemented to one or both, and it's a crap shoot as to whether it stays on the block or pan when everything comes apart.

 

[340inabbody]

It’s I believe a stock pan. Stock pans didn’t use baffles in 1970 right?

 

[junkyardhero]

It’s I believe a stock pan. Stock pans didn’t use baffles in 1970 right?

not unless somebody welded one in.

question: do you have the motor free of the motor mounts and jacked up a bit for clearance?

without doing so, you're unlikely to clear the front of the pan on the K and it'll tend to hang up on the body of the oil pump in the back.

 

[340inabbody]

not unless somebody welded one in.

question: do you have the motor free of the motor mounts and jacked up a bit for clearance?

without doing so, you're unlikely to clear the front of the pan on the K and it'll tend to hang up on the body of the oil pump in the back.

No the engine is sitting on the mounts. This application is not an A body however. Its a bbody. The front has room, it's hing up on the back at the rear seal.

 

[CRUZE 418]

The end rubber seals do have rubber tit like an arrow head that hold the seal to the pan, but you should see that. You never know, it may have a baffle in the sump, which means that the pan will have to be slid one way or the other.

 

[340inabbody]

The end rubber seals do have rubber tit like an arrow head that hold the seal to the pan, but you should see that. You never know, it may have a baffle in the sump, which means that the pan will have to be slid one way or the other.

Thanks. The pan cannot move forward. It’s plenty clear to move forward but hung up by probably the tit.

It wouldn’t be the first time I was hung up by a tit. Hopefully not the last time either lol

 

[340inabbody]

I guess some pans have baffles. I wonder what pans had them and what pans didn’t? My pan came from my 1970 318 Satellite.

This one is from Summit.