GM 12601240 Oil Pan

Before pulling the engine out, there is an engine support that has to be fitted across the engine bay and this will need to have some of the weight shifted off the right engine mount. Place the vehicle on car jacks so that it is raised well and then remove the engine oil of the vehicle. Next, a right engine mount and its bracket should be detached and the engine should be raised several inches for the oil pan. Lose the lower air conditioning compressor mounting bolt and half tighten the other three compressor mounting bolts without pulling them out. Remove the dipstick and the dipstick tube which is fixed to the intake manifold. Loosen the oil pan bolts in the order of how they were tightened and then gently un bolt the oil pan from the lower crankcase. For installation, remove old gasket deposits from the lower crank case and oil pan using gasket scraper and brake system cleaner with a view of removing the remaining deposits and oil films. Use a 2 mm thickness of the RTV sealant along the circumference of the oil pan, to the inside of the bolt holes' interior and around the oil suction port before fitting of the oil pan is done. Bolt the oil pan and its bolts into a suitable sequence in the right torque for the car model. Reassemble the carrier in the reverse order in which the following components were removed; do not forget to tighten the wheel lug nuts to the correct torque. Last but not the least, put back the oil used earlier, replace the oil filter, let the engine run and then look out for any dripping.