hey wondering if anyone has any experience taking out the oil pan? how long does it take? and is it difficult? and how much do you think it would be...? thx all

 

You need to unbolt the motor and transmission mounts, and lift the engine up several inches in order to pull down the oil pan.

 

damn that sounds like a lot of work...so i need a cherry picker to lift up the engine?

 

Yep, a cherry picker would definetely help. If you are brave and not worried about sqashing your fingers, you can use jacks under the front damper and tranny tailshaft, but the jacks can slip out of place too easily alowing the engine to drop down.

 

so basically im looking at about 15 hours of work?

 

Naw, should not take anywhere that long.
Raise ebgine slightly with cherry picker to relieve pressure on mount cross bolts
Remove engine mount through bolts on both sides of the engine (separates the two halves of each mount)
Unbolt the transmission mount from crossmember
Raise engine till it touches the cowling, no need to disconnect any other parts.
Unbolt mount halves from engine & from frame
Replace mounts
Lower engine, into position to install the trough bolts. Easier with a helper lowering the engine and you guiding it into position.
Bolt up everything back

 

that doesnt sound hard at all...so do i have to take any thing like the headers off and stuff like that, to pick up the engine with the cherry picker? that sounds more like a 5 hour job...right?

 

Didn't realize you had headers on. They may or may not be a problem, but see how much you can raise the engine before they hit things. All you need is enough room to get to bolts that hold the mounts on to the engine.

 

so once i take off the moounts to the engine and transmission...all i gotta do is unbolt the old oil pan and slip in a new gasket and bolt up the new oil pan?

 

Yes, but you have to raise the engine some to get to the pan bolts.