spyke

hey i just took my trans mission out of my 70 cutlass with a 350 rocket in i had been changing the pan gasket thinking that maybe it was to tight or to loose, then i came to find that the front seal on the trans was leaking.So i pulled the trans and replaced the front and rear seals, now since the trans is still out of the car i want to change the oil pan gasket because it also has a leak i need a lil direction on how to gett this oil pan off without pulling the motor out of the car? i was told that it would be hard because of the flywheel soim wondering if i need to remove the flywheel to make it easier and not have to lift the motor.

Oldsmaniac

You will need to jack engine up off the mounts to clear engine cradle/frame section with the pan. Hopefully you have dual exhaust else crossover pipe must come off.. PITA!

spyke

yeah i do have dual exhaust so where to jack it up at? wont it mess something up if i put the jack under the harmonic balancer?