How hard is it to drop oil pan?

[bakirkwold]

On my 450 can I just remove the bolts on the oil pan and it comes out? If I do that will I need a new gasket? I just want to clean it up. Get all the grime out of it.

[JEEPRUSTY]

Mine comes out easily.
remove all bolts including an hidden ones and give a whack on the exposed whacking flange and away you go.

I saved the gasket but opted for a new one later. They get cooked pretty bad being over the exhaust and all.

[pete]

Mine comes out easily.
remove all bolts including an hidden ones and give a whack on the exposed whacking flange and away you go.

I saved the gasket but opted for a new one later. They get cooked pretty bad being over the exhaust and all.

+1, should be dead easy.

If you're taking it off I'd do a new gasket at the same time regardless... the last thing you want is to take it off only to find it disintegrates and you don't have a new one ready to go on...

[pete]

Oh, and don't forget to take the round screen off and clean it up too, and then don't forget to put thread locker on the three screws holding it on when you put it back together...

[JEEPRUSTY]

Yeah the irony of sucking one of the three screw for the screen into the oil pump because you cleaned it would be brutal.

[pete]

Yeah the irony of sucking one of the three screw for the screen into the oil pump because you cleaned it would be brutal.

Indeed it would!