RE: the oilpan.

You have 2 choices.

1. Drop the pan, clean it out, and be done with it.

-or-

2. Don't drop it now, but remove it from the block when you toast the bearings due to oil starvation. You *could* always clean it out then. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/nana.gif" alt="" />

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