Oil Pan Leak 68 camaro

[zboss86]

My oil pan is leaking on my 68 camaro sbc...

Has anybody replaced the oil pan with the engine still in the car? Maybe I could unbolt the engine mounts and headers and raise the engine up or something to that effect.

[zboss86]

This was either a dumb question or no body knew.
regardless...

I was able to do this by unbolting the motor mounts, transmission mount and the exhaust collectors.
I tried it first with just the motor mounts bolts. It was almost enough.
Then I unbolted the exhaust collectors and tranny mount. I was able to raise the engine another inch and the oil pan just fell out.

[minendrews68]

I will make this suggestion. Fel Pro makes a one piece gasket for the oil pan. I have a earlier model (no ls) motor. These gaskets are considerably higher than regular pan gaskets but you've got to see them to believe them. I was lucky, I got my motor back SBC mounted it on my subframe, which was out of the car, and finished putting everything together I started it tweaked it a bit and found that I was leaking around the aftermarket chrome timing chain cover. The new one piece gasket fixed all my leaking problems. Check it out ....

[zboss86]

You read my mind... I already have one. Great piece..

[zboss86]

The one piece did the trick for the pan. I have so much blow by, it looks like it's time for the LS swap...