Doing a bunch of stuff tonight and putting my oil pan back on my 84 ext cab (it was put on with a gasket by the PO and leaking) and one corner at the back of the block kept dripping so I put a blue paper shop towel up in there to stop the drip so I could get the FIPG on there unmolested. Now that I think about it I don't think I took the paper towel out. I know it will get shredded, just wondering if I should yank the oil pan down now and remove it for fear of clogging up the sump screen?

Thoughts?

 

Honestly, yeah, I would drop it and get it out. I'm too paranoid, just 'cause I'll know that it's in there.

 

Yea i'd drop her. When i did my head i almost convinced myself i left a rag in # 1 cyld, dang i lost a nights sleep. Bye the way how much clearance do you need under oil pan (22re, Rancho 3" lift) to get off without lifting engine a bit.

 

In a word "YES" drop that pan and remove it, it could cost you a lot of money if you don,t. I know thats not what any of us would want to hear but!!!!!!! Been there done that,
Pigman

 

I don't know how much clearance you need clarence. he he. But I would try to jack er up by the frame and let ther axel droop a bit.

 

Better safe than sorry Brian.

 

pfft atleast you dont have to drop your front diff and wrestle with it.. i'd be happy if i had to redo it haha.

 

LOL you got to be kidding I think you just posted to add to your count you know you really didn't need to ask that question you crack me up

 

Long day and I was tired. I don't remember specifically removing it so a dropping I will go. Boneheaded, but at least I hadn't filled it with oil again.

All you have to do is jack the frame about an inch or so to clear the axle with the oil pan.

Dealer price out is $266 to r/r. Yes Im lazy but not THAT lazy.

Im going to see if I can snake it with a coat hanger through the drain plug first as it is right above it. Might get lucky.

 

glad you found it now, you do this on the '84 or the '85? ...I found chunks of an old timing chain when i dropped the pan on my '84...would rather have found a paper towel...

 

Glad to hear you are a mere mortal like me.

I would drop the pan for 100% insurance. But maybe you could work one of those (and I'm going to use extremely technical terms) snakey -thingys that is about 18'' long with a plunger on the handle end that makes a little claw come out on the other end to grab onto it and then just lay out the paper towel to see that you got it all.

Reminds me of the thread I saw where somebody was pulling rags out the spark plug holes because he forgot to take them out.

I won't laugh because I am still taking stuff apart.

 

Rag removal through the drain plug, ya kiddin. Good one.

 

Anything is possible...

 

Actually the blue towel is right there above the drain plug hole and perhaps oil soaked by now and fell on its own. If not, I am still going to try and fish it out with something first before tearing the pan down again. Worth a shot.

Stupidity is the precursor for most necessity. Necessity is the foundation of all invention.

 

at least it'll be a good story to tell kids and friends over beer.

 

Did you get it out?

 

I say don't fish it out.

Then call your buddy at Nix99 for a new engine

 

Well I tackled this today. The blue towel was right where I had left it.

FYI: Toyota FIPG is pretty much a one use tube. I think the big issue I had last time was the tube had been opened and a bit used and the rest had gotten "hardened" from exposure to the air and didn't flow out of the tube.

This time I had a new tube of FIPG and things went much smoother. Lesson learned.

Oil pan is on. Curing overnight.

 

So, no fishin'.

 

I tried the shop vac but the towel was just wedge in there too tightly.

Only took me about an hour to redo it. Dealer charges 3 hours...ridiculous.