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**Gregski** · 06-01-2019, 10:34 PM

one thing I always do when I buy an engine off a car is remove the oil pan from the engine and clean the crud out of the oil pan, this is a good idea for a number of reasons:

1. it tells you how well the previous owner(s) (mis)treated the vehicle, ha ha

2. it prevents the 20 year old crud from contaminating new oil and straining the new oil fiters

this brings us to LS Lesson Learned #2.

The factory stock oil pan gasket in riveted on in two places to the oil pan and those rivets need to be drilled out in order to replace the gasket

the Greg did not know that

06-01-2019, 10:34 PM	#5990
Gregski Post Whore Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 10,803	Re: Restoring Rusty - LR4 4.8L oil pan gasket remove and replace one thing I always do when I buy an engine off a car is remove the oil pan from the engine and clean the crud out of the oil pan, this is a good idea for a number of reasons: 1. it tells you how well the previous owner(s) (mis)treated the vehicle, ha ha 2. it prevents the 20 year old crud from contaminating new oil and straining the new oil fiters this brings us to LS Lesson Learned #2. The factory stock oil pan gasket in riveted on in two places to the oil pan and those rivets need to be drilled out in order to replace the gasket the Greg did not know that Attached Images Last edited by Gregski; 06-13-2019 at 10:43 AM.