When you lower your pan, crack it lose just a bit and shine a light in, see how the pickup etc. is. Only one way to put it back together, so don't force it. Shop manual shows nice diagram too. Can download a shop manual from this forum, it is sticky-ed at the top of General I think.
When you put the bolts back in that hold the pan (a bunch, forget number) I recommend you use one of those sockets with a small diameter screwdriver handle on it, not a ratchet. The block is aluminum, and you don't want to overtighten.
I only used three fingers to tighten each bolt, and did them radially like you'd tighten a car wheel, one side, opposite, 90 degrees, repeat, and radially around.
Then using the same socket I snugged each one in the same pattern, with all my fingers. Then took the smallest ratchet I have (it is only 6" long) and gave about an 1/8th of a turn on each.
That pan never seeped, nor has any of the bolts come loose. I still check it every winter anyway.
If I had used a torque wrench I may have overturned a few bolts before the wrench clicked. I've got a small beam wrench now, that reads low enough for that sort of thing, if I have to do it again.
* Last updated by: privateer on 10/2/2011 @ 9:31 PM *
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