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JimSmith · #15 05-13-2007, 09:02 AM

Racing,

Thanks for the time to post such a detailed response. I am struggling with how to get the oil pan off without taking the transmission down. The car is "on the ground" so to speak, meaning it is sitting on the tires and we use a floor jack to lift it now and then to get under it. Dropping the transmission is almost out of the question now.

We can probably get the oil pan down a few inches by disconnecting the engine mounts and trying to block the engine up, I suppose.

As for the oil system, this car has been on Mobil 1, 5W-40 (sold here as Delvac 1, a Diesel engine oil with additives for keeping the soot in suspension) for quite some time, like the last 20,000 or so miles, changed every 5,000 miles or less. We have had a problem with gasoline getting into the oil, and as of late the car has had oil changes every 2,500 miles. That turns out to be leaking injectors. My son has the car at school in Indiana and we live in Connecticut. We have been looking at the oil filters and have not noticed a lot of serious crud in the past, but will take this one out and check it carefully. We usually change the oil hot, and I have the last discarded oil change (about 1,100 miles ago).

I will go outside and try to take a photo of the woodruff key, as well as try to find the part numbers for the dampner(s) and the pulley. Maybe I can track them down that way. The first owner of this car was from California and drove it in local road races and the like at one of the tracks near Los Angeles. It is possible he put something peculiar on it.

If I take the oil cooler out and send it to a local repair shop and ask them to flow solvent through it, would that be of any use?

So, my next big challenge before I can respond to the lower end work you recommended is getting the oil pan off. I will have to study that for a while.

Thanks again for the help, Jim