after you get that oil pan on you can come up here and change out my oil pan gasket for me. ENGNBLDR Rock gasket not doing well at all and I got only about 2000 miles on it.

 

was it cork or otherwise....

break out the FIPG......

 

cork. grrrrr

 

without me re-reading all the specs on the 1987 oil pan.....can you get away with an FIPG kinda fix?

that is a damm shame, considering what a pain in the Dartos Tunic (hehehehe) it is to access the pan.

 

I am gonna try the fipgish (rtv) fix, but I had already rtv'd it. maybe I wasn't supposed to in the first place or used the wrong color? I always forget which color rtv to use where. Fuel, water, oil etc etc.

 

I'm thinking black is black.....I insisted on using the Toyota FIPG because I really don't want to do that part again......I'm gonna assume Black RTV is the equivalent to it though.

 

87 calls for a gasket???

i see them advertised and I think i saw that in the Hayne's.....but, OY!

 

If I rememer right, mine had a gasket (was not cork) and that oem gasket was held in place by some beads that were run of either black or dark grey FIPG.

I might have had the oil pan bolts torqued down too much as well I don't know. The torque specs on those tiny bolts are real low though. And remember also I had to take this pan off from the beginning twice. That I am sure didn't help matters either.

 

it's like 8 or 9ft/lbs.

took a pic of the page, not sure if it's readable...have the book right here...Chilton's 1970 to 1988 repair manual...

 

sorry...no good

 

try again...

 

I put my oil pan on with only silicone, used "the right stuff" from Napa. The stuff works great but is a little pricey!

 

good point...i'm gonna go out on a limb and say you are probably as safe if not safer just using the sealer stuff.

 

Neither the FSM or my Chilton say to use a gasket, they give a procedure to fill the little grooves on the pan with FIPG. Napa does offer a gasket, but it looked cheap to me so I decided against it.

 

I ended up going with the gasket and have yet to find a leak. That was last year and to be honest the gasket made life easier. I think it was a felpro.

 

my imagination does not serve me well in trying to figure out how to place a gasket on that.... it's a 1-piece right?? so you have to get that pan clear of the strainer and all that just to fit a new one on....versus dropping the pan enough and giving due-diligence to cleaning it up and using the right amount of spooge on it.

 

hey MIGHTYMOUSE....where the hell have you been?

Hi TOYOSPEARO...saw ya peekin'

 

and to anybody else don't ever hesitate to post here...even if it's not relevant to current events

 

Yeah it was one piece but i had my pan off completely to clean it. When it came to installing the gasket it was a snap. i just placed it on the pan and snugged it up. It might be a pain in the butt if your's is hard to wiggle into place.

 

any high temp silcone should work...

i keep a calk tube in stock just for those type of occassions