silverbullet

I need to fix my leaking oil pan gasket soon. I have seen the stuff on clarks garage. Is this something I should try to do myself, with just ramps/jackstands? Or is it better just to have a shop do it? How much should it cost, the Porsche dealer quotes around $4000!!! That can't be right!
-Josh

hosrom_951

IF you do it you'reself, you would need to support the engine somehow since you would need to remove the cross-memeber to remove the pan.

My local porsche specialist charged me AED2,000 (US$550) labour wise. I got the pan gasket, exhaust wrap (for the x-over pipe) and told the mechanic to install a new battery cable.

US$4,000 is crazy expensive, the local dealer wanted to charge me AED3,000 (US$820) for just the oil pan job.

Tom M'Guinn

If you are using Mobil 1, you may want to give dino oil a try first (maxlife even better). That seemed to fix all my many leaks, to my amazement.

TRWright

Interesting. . . . . I might just have to try that.

Zero10

It's not that bad, brace the engine from above, remove crossmember, steering rack then oil pan. Not too bad if you ask me, but then again, I did mine on an engine stand

silverbullet

Thanks,
Yeah, I think its worth doing it myself just to save all that money. I know its gonna take me at least a full weekend, maybe 16+ hrs?

potent951turbo

If your mechanically inclined then its not bad. I did mine in my garage twice. After the first time it went pretty fast. After talking to a Porsche mechanic he told me to actually contact cement the gasket to the block, since the gasket kept U-ing out between the bolts the first time I did it.

pk951

If you do it youreself get the brackets from My Swiss many people are happy with them.

kasturbo

Do the rod bearings if they haven't been done yet. Never a better time. I just had mine done. I removed all of the intake stuff and crossover pipe and then trailered the car to the mechanic. Saved about half on labor. This also aloud me to take my time putting things back together so that I could check all of the vaccumm connections with the manifold off. I think I paid $400 in labor.

Dark Lightning

And the cross-over pipe?

jwl

We switched to Mobil 1 after running dino in our track car and the leak started. Since then we started using Valvoline 20W50 racing oil and it has slowed down considerably.

SamGrant951

Wow, I think Im going to go get some Valv 20W50 until I get my oil pan gasket fixed just to try this out...

rhesus

Get the 3-piece x-over from Lindsey since you'll be in there.

Waterguy

The hardest part is all the things you should do "while you are in there." At the minimum, rod bearings and oil pick-up o-ring, and check motor mounts. This was my first project when I bought my car, and I didn't find it too bad. I used a home-made brace (search for pictures/descriptions.)

BTW the MySwiiss brackets are mainly for when you rebuild the engine and the blow-by from the new rings pressurises the oil pan gasket. I didn't have any probl;ems with the new gasket squeezing out.

Peckster

I tried switching, it didn't do a thing. Fix it right and you can run the good stuff with no leaks.