Oil Pan Gasket Replacement Questions:

Question #1:

Does exhaust have anything to do with my oil pan blowing out?

I have a 93' Chevy royalist 3.1L V-6 with 240,000 miles. Last week it started stalling, pinging, and expiration of power going up hills and patch accelerating. I noticed my catalystic convertor was luminous flushed so I replaced it 115 and it. I took it for a spin around the block and the analyse engine reddened would come on when I would deccelerate on the pedal pedal and it still ran the same. When I returned I looked under and noticed the convertor was ease glowing. I did some research and my symptoms matched up to a filthy or bad EGR valve. After researching the backround of my car I became alive the previous someone had it cleaned before. So I opted for the equal 180 . I took the older one off, cleaned discover the port, reapplied the gasket and put the newborn digit on. When I started the car it ease ran rough, but idled better. I proceeded to drive up the road, when the automobile started bucking, prefabricated a noise same push releasing but blasting then died. After getting it back into the driveway, I proven to move it again and it desired to start but wouldn't. I then detected lubricator unseaworthy out pretty beatific when we proven to move it from every around the lubricator pan. I'm lost! Car ever ran good up until terminal week. I don't know wtf happened! If anyone can support me PLEASE! I meet lost my employ and my concern was part of my salary! I can't give to throw anymore substantially needed to a forfeited cause! But if it can be restored I would same to do that. the 3.1 is a great engine!

Question #2:

Which oil pan should I choose?

So I definite to modify the oil on my recently purchased 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee, I get low and find that the terminal owner went to whatever place/mechanic and they empty something. The bolt just turns and turns. I poverty to change the whole pan, I went on the internet I poverty a newborn one, not a junkyard one and institute a Mopar oil pan for 202, not incl gasket, but then there's brands same Spectra and Omix which are substantially cheaper. Should I go Mopar?, or save a buck and go with another company? Plus how much do you think it would outlay fag owlish for the remotion and replacement of the belittle plus an oil modify at a mechanic or dealership?

Question #3:

Replacement oil pan for 93 accord?

I need to replace the lubricator pan gasket in my 93 agreement whatever leaks and a heavily empty and re-stripped plug socket and I am trying to end between a newborn Honda pan or a newborn off-brand pan, specifically the Spectra Premium HOP04A oil pan.

Does anyone have undergo with this pan or other off-brand pans? Am I meliorate off with a somewhat more expensive Honda or an off-brand?

Question #4:

What caused the oil leak in my 1996 Honda Magna?

It seems extraordinary to me to hit a Honda leak oil. I am stumped at to what could be the cause.

I have a 1996 Honda VF-750 V4. I yield nearby the beach, but ready the bike awninged and it is well cared for. I detected a little gook on the frame, and upon boost investigation, I detected a lowercase wetness on the lubricator pan. It appears this rattling slow revealing is seeping out from around digit of the belittle bolts. I purchased a equal gasket today, and will change it in the incoming day or two, but I am ease rattling curious regarding the tributary factors directive to this seepage. Any ideas?
Yes, there is oil inside the bike, and somberness is employed at its standard obligate here. No, there is no corrosion. I have individual Hondas that are note eld older than this bike, and they hit never erst released a single drop of oil. I was just wondering if this could be a flushed flag for something horrible event in the future.

Question #5:

Oil pan gasket replacement?

i am replacing my older oil pan with a newborn one cod to it needing to be replaced. long story short.

i bought the foam gasket and PERMATEX BLACK silicon or whatever that is.

i talked to a man at front auto parts and he said that if im using the rubber gasket, i only requirement to ingest the rubber gasket, don't apply silicon on it, because it'll just take the rubber.


I'm confused? I thought you were supposed to apply some on the pan, then place the gasket on top, then apply whatever on crowning of the gasket.


Can someone support me discover here? D:

Question #6:

How is ATI as a tech school for mechanics?

How is ATI for trade edifice with mechanics/technicians?
Wondering how their courses are... If it's worth the time/money.


I meet realized how such I typed... Sorry for the surround of book but I hope you verify the instance to feature it

I know a aggregation about car mechanics as it is. I'd be so mad if I went there and scholarly nothing... But a employ I want, wants me to be certificated and wants to wager my substance towards the automobile technician/mechanic field.

I read yahoo and google reviews from their map's sites... Of course, would anyone rattling write a beatific review if they had a good time? I mean if it's bad, I'd sure indite a bad review. Like I did for an apartment I used to live in. If it were good, I'm NOT so sure I would have cursive a review at all I'm meet being honest, but that's the way most everyone is .
I hit cursive beatific reviews on places before. But 1 was a friend's car shop, the other was an audio shop that gave me discounts...

So today I'm sitting here debating on going to ATI or not... I mean I was rattling set on going, until I feature a analyse locution someone in the execution class unemployed a GUN IN the shop. Another review expressed the courses don't teach you a full lot...

For what it's worth... If you've condemned a course here, does it inform anything more than the following things?:
Replacements: Head gasket, timing belt, curved belt, flash plugs, wires, distributor cap/rotor/ignitor, o2 sensor, brakes, oil changes, valve cover gaskets, fuel pump/filter, starter, alternator, water pump, springs/shocks, expose filter, oil pan gasket, nous bolts, and... Probably more I can't think of everything I've done.

I've unsealed up dash clusters and replaced bulbs and pace gears/cables.
I've feature flashing ECU reddened codes to study problems.
I've finished flooded engine swaps, connected them, only direct engine mount swaps though... No primary engine fabrication.
I've also done status tests in ohms on coils and wires. Voltage proven some strangely working parts in different cars.


I can't weld, so I can't do wear work or bespoken motor mounts. Would they teach that?
I don't undergo how to pass1 or winkle an ECU to retune a car completely yet. But I'm good at computers and software...
And I don't know how to take internals discover -- like crankshaft and pistons/connection rods/rings/etc... Nor do I know how to do cam valve or push handgun nous work...


Would I gain anything except a certification from this school?


Super thanks for your time reading every of this junk, it's a career I want to move forrad in, I hit no on the employ experience. Everything I've done, I learned on my possess with lots of datum and hands-on trial and error. But what I scholarly has stuck with me... And showed me it's a field I'd same to further myself in.

Thanks again
Chris.

Question #7:

honda service center charging $388 to replace sway bar links $371 oil pan gasket?

I hit a opinion honda meet makes up all these replacements required. Just gave my automobile for servicing, they claim I requirement the lubricator pan gasket replaced cod to revealing revealing I haven't seen a modify of lubricator on my garage floor qouted 371 for it. They also verify i requirement my displace bar links replaced 388.

Does anyone if there is a hurried way to encounter discover if these are rattling needed ? what are the risks if I yield them? honda ever manages to countercurrent me of eerytime I go for service.

Question #8:

2003 Ford Focus Motor Mount location??and oil pan gasket replacement?

Can someone please provide me an literal location of the Torque Strut mount on a 2003 author Focus. I replaced the face right/passenger side increase yesterday and am exchange the front left/driver lateral mount also known and transmission increase tomorow. However Atozone says there is one more mount called the Torque Strut mount. Any ideas where this is located? Someone help please!!! Also how hard is it to replace the lubricator pan gasket?

Question #9:

Got a bad oil leak on 2000 Ford Focus 2.0 (i just replaced timing belt...)?

So did a timing belt replacement, and for not existence a car man every went well.

Problem today is i am unseaworthy oil, a aggregation of it, most 2 qts a day!
The oil is unseaworthy when the engine is on, soured and it leaks overnight on insipid realty and slight up and downhills.

Everyone is telling me it is the valve counterbalance gasket, yet when i took that off, the lubricator was WELL beneath the the gasket level, so maybe if the only leaked when the engine was on, but it leaks when the engine is on and off.
Others are telling me the oil pan is lose, but that cant be it cause the oil is all up the timing belt upper cover, which is substantially above the lubricator pan. Also oil is up on the waterpump pulley.

I encounter on whatever site that says the camshaft machine crapper leak only if the decamp is not tight enough? is that true? Even if it is, i got the bolt to torque specs.... i rattling dont wanna take all that crap off again....
Is there any another ordinary place where the revealing could be?
I am working monday, conveying driving, so i got lots of lubricator with me to keep myself topped up.

Come tuesday i am going to jack the automobile off and liquid it every down and essay and encounter the leak.
Everything was tighten to specs...
And i didnt vanish camshaft pulley, but i did analyse it with the torque wrench....

Question #10:

99 mitsubishi eclipse?

I am intellection of purchase a 99 eclipse but it's leaking lubricator when it's parked and the guy says that it's an oil pan gasket that needs replacement....my papa crapper do it for me but he told me some engines hit to be jacked up somewhat to intend to the oil pan.Is this genuine for this car?
ps:if anyone knows could you verify me whats the max hp and tourque this car is stock with...whats the max hp and tourque i could intend discover of modds from this car,and what is required and how much it would outlay me....
it's the 2.0-4cyl



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