Oil change - do you remove oil pan?

[carguy1701]

I...wat

 

[spasm3]

No. Not dropping a perfectly leak free pan without a good reason. Maybe if I got a deal on a sludged motor. But otherwise, no.

 

[Michael_P]

The longer the time your sump screen (pick up) is not submerged in oil, the greater the chance you have of an oil pump losing prime. Assuming you are quick doing a pan R&R and cleaning, that's at least an hour the pick up tube is slowly dripping oil out of the pump. You can easily do more damage to your engine engaging in such a ritual.

 

[bbhero]

Originally Posted by spasm3
No. Not dropping a perfectly leak free pan without a good reason. Maybe if I got a deal on a sludged motor. But otherwise, no.



Yeah exactly ^^^^^^^

No need in doing extra work like that...

 

[Hall]

Originally Posted by Garak
Heck, the oil cooler on the Maxda RX-8 holds what, two litres, that aren't drained at each OCI?

I presume no members here own one of those. That would give them heartache and keep them up at night ! Heck, they'd probably sell the car to avoid having to deal with this !

 

[aquariuscsm]

Heck yes!! Doesn't everybody?

 

[OilUzer]

In 2011 we had oil pans ...
9 years later you would think we would have a sealed system by now.

Engineers are slacking off