Hello,
I had a leaky oil pan gasket on 96 Honda Civic CX Hatch, A/T. Dealer wanted $280 for the job. I looked up in Honda factory repair manual - seemed like a simple job, decided to do it myself.
I unbolted the oil pan. Got it unstuck and now I am in a little bit of trouble as I have not anticipated that exhaust pipe will be so much in the way and would not allow to remove the pan. Also the stupid transmission stiffener is hanging between pan and the pipe and I cannot wiggle it out as well.
I spent like 2 hours trying to wiggle it out - no go, the pipe is in the way. The exhaust pipe, the manifold and the bolts holding them are all so rusted - no chance I can take them apart w/o breaking.
(also the pipe seems to stuck to manifold for good).
Two questions:
1) There is no way I can take out oil pan w/o messing with the pipe? Any solutions?
2) The oil pan is held by combination of bolts and nuts, total 18. I did not make a record of where are the
nuts and where are the bolts. Could someone post the map (or photo) of their oil pan, so I can figure
the correct placement of bolts and nuts (my problem is that 3 nuts came off together with the sticks,
so I lost track of where they were originally).
Many thanks for advice on this issue!
I had a leaky oil pan gasket on 96 Honda Civic CX Hatch, A/T. Dealer wanted $280 for the job. I looked up in Honda factory repair manual - seemed like a simple job, decided to do it myself.
I unbolted the oil pan. Got it unstuck and now I am in a little bit of trouble as I have not anticipated that exhaust pipe will be so much in the way and would not allow to remove the pan. Also the stupid transmission stiffener is hanging between pan and the pipe and I cannot wiggle it out as well.
I spent like 2 hours trying to wiggle it out - no go, the pipe is in the way. The exhaust pipe, the manifold and the bolts holding them are all so rusted - no chance I can take them apart w/o breaking.
(also the pipe seems to stuck to manifold for good).
Two questions:
1) There is no way I can take out oil pan w/o messing with the pipe? Any solutions?
2) The oil pan is held by combination of bolts and nuts, total 18. I did not make a record of where are the
nuts and where are the bolts. Could someone post the map (or photo) of their oil pan, so I can figure
the correct placement of bolts and nuts (my problem is that 3 nuts came off together with the sticks,
so I lost track of where they were originally).
Many thanks for advice on this issue!