A little trick I used to do on my racing engines was I had some 4 inch long bolts the same size (dia and thread) as the pan bolts. I cut the heads off and ground them with a soft point on the tips. Then I would screw them into the engine block a few turns to use a guide pins for the oil pan. If I was in a hurry I'd also use a bungie cord under the engine that I could attach to one side of the block then swing it under the oil pan and hook it to the other side somewhere to hold the pan in place while I put the other bolts in. Then I'd remove the guide pins (and bungie cord) and put the bolts in those holes. Makes engine building a lot easier when you don't have a helper to hold the pan in place. Especially at track side! The guide pins made it easier to keep the gasket aligned while I installed the pans. (Also used some for guides pins to hold transmissions in place while I line up the clutch. Hint, put the tranmission in 1st gear so you and turn the tailshaft to make alignment easy. (Manual transmissions of course. Automatic just need a screwdriver to rotate the flex plate to the torque converter.)) Work Smarter, not Harder! I built a Hot Rod Cummins engine in 2010 like you have there and stuffed it in my RV.
Doing the pan on my Cummins and when you said about 2.5 gallons I was like WHAT???? Mine takes about 11 but quickly realized your doing a 5.9 hahah I’m doing my 855 Big Cam Cummins 😂😂😂 she loves the oil! Thanks for the video brother!
Yeah but it's painful. You have to hook a hoist up to the engine, unbolt the engine from the frame, then after the engine is raised up a smidge, take the oil pan bolts out, then you need to remove the oil pickup return once you can fit s wrench in there. Then you can remove the pan. It's 99% labor
A little trick I used to do on my racing engines was I had some 4 inch long bolts the same size (dia and thread) as the pan bolts. I cut the heads off and ground them with a soft point on the tips. Then I would screw them into the engine block a few turns to use a guide pins for the oil pan. If I was in a hurry I'd also use a bungie cord under the engine that I could attach to one side of the block then swing it under the oil pan and hook it to the other side somewhere to hold the pan in place while I put the other bolts in. Then I'd remove the guide pins (and bungie cord) and put the bolts in those holes. Makes engine building a lot easier when you don't have a helper to hold the pan in place. Especially at track side!
The guide pins made it easier to keep the gasket aligned while I installed the pans.
(Also used some for guides pins to hold transmissions in place while I line up the clutch. Hint, put the tranmission in 1st gear so you and turn the tailshaft to make alignment easy. (Manual transmissions of course. Automatic just need a screwdriver to rotate the flex plate to the torque converter.))
Work Smarter, not Harder! I built a Hot Rod Cummins engine in 2010 like you have there and stuffed it in my RV.
Doing the pan on my Cummins and when you said about 2.5 gallons I was like WHAT???? Mine takes about 11 but quickly realized your doing a 5.9 hahah I’m doing my 855 Big Cam Cummins 😂😂😂 she loves the oil! Thanks for the video brother!
I have a 97 12 valve I pulled the motor and did all gaskets,however no kdp,it was in the PAN
Nice vid.doing mind this tuesday
Hi did you apply sealant on both faces of the gasket ???
how many fot pounds , drill running at the moment you said it.????/
Where you buy the gasket?
How many ft pound did he said ?
18
Did it leak again after?
Mine did. Just did my pan gasket with the napa gasket. Front part broke I never used any sealent though
Going to have to lift the engine again. Lol ?
@@codyaubin8626 that’s the easiest way
@@FirstGendodgegarage do you use sealent with the gasket?
Can the oil pan gasket be changed in the vehicle?
Yeah but it's painful. You have to hook a hoist up to the engine, unbolt the engine from the frame, then after the engine is raised up a smidge, take the oil pan bolts out, then you need to remove the oil pickup return once you can fit s wrench in there.
Then you can remove the pan. It's 99% labor
11 quarts
18 fp