I'm about to install my timing chain cover on my /6 and cannot remove the oil pan due to an engine mount cross member in the way (the engine is in a boat and would actually have to be lifted off the cross member to take the pan off). Any ideas on getting the locating dowels to line up with the holes given that the pan cannot be removed?

I think it will work if I use c-clamps to compress the rubber gasket just enough to line up the dowels and then tap the cover on -- what do you think?


Thanks,

Dan

Any way to loosen pan bolts enough to lower the front of the pan

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I could loosen the pan bolts, but as the lip of the pan actually sits on the cross member, I'd have to first lift the engine just enough to remove that. I suppose I might have to look at this, but it would be so much easier if the other was possible.

Thanks

Dan

on my drag car,I have changed out the cam w/o loosening any pan bolts.I actually cut the thick rubber ends off......and use an orange silicone" gasket maker" bead around the whole perimeter.
Hope this helps.
Andrew/Kidd

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Thanks Andrew. Will try this.

dan

There is "no free lunch"... as they say.
Using short-cuts always carries some risk. Are you willing / ready to do the job again, if it leaks a little, or leaks a lot? How much other stuff has to be removed to get back to this area in your application... on our drag cars... it's not much.

I worry more about the front crank seal... more then getting the pan gasket's front rail to seal.
Me... I have a special "centering hub" and open-up the timing cover's dowel pin holes a little, to be sure the front seal gets well centered & even "loading", all around it's sealing lip.
You can't do this when forcing the parts together.
DD

Doc's right, and the front of the oil pan, which seals with the bottom of the timing cover, is one of the hardest places to get to seal properly. The time savings of any shortcut you may devise is very likely to be eaten up (and then some) by having to go back and do the job again.

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