Agreed, it may be a P.I.T.A., but if you don't drop the pan and pull the debrii out, you'll be dropping much more in the future. I just finished mine two weeks ago, and found these in mine....

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Still thinking about not dropping it?

4crawler has an excellent write-up, I used it and the only problem I had was that it didn't mention anything about the smog pump, although it was obvious what to do with it. I would highly recommend using it.