DIY: Oil Pan Spacer

Jayhovah · 10-03-2017, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by wstar

7) Re-install the oil pump pickup using the provided spacer. The spacer makes the oil pickup about an inch longer, so that it still reaches to the bottom of the new, deeper oil pan area when you're done. Use a little bit of ultra grey on both sides of the spacer and bolt it up, not too hard. Follow the recommended torque specs, I believe it was 15-17 ft lbs, which isn't very much force at all.

Not sure about this step.. The FSM does not call for any sealer on the pickup tube, and, in the instructions for my oil pan (which included a pick-up spacer) it specifically warns NOT to use any sealer for the pick-up spacer.

The danger here being that any squeeze-out of RTV here will already be past the strainer and can thus be sucked in to become an obstruction in the oil passage.

Rusty · 10-03-2017, 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Jayhovah

Not sure about this step.. The FSM does not call for any sealer on the pickup tube, and, in the instructions for my oil pan (which included a pick-up spacer) it specifically warns NOT to use any sealer for the pick-up spacer.

The danger here being that any squeeze-out of RTV here will already be past the strainer and can thus be sucked in to become an obstruction in the oil passage.

I didn't use any on my pick-up tube either. That area is under suction, and being splash with oil anyway.

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