Oil pan gasket question
#17
#22
I advise against using cork as a gasket, there was a thread somewhere on a here as a result of it and when it rots, you will not like the results of it inside your engine. Yes the filter screen is there but still I wouldn't think about using that. Just RTV only.
#24
since when does our lower oil pan use a gasket? am i going crazy? granted I haven't had the oil pan off a VQ in a few years but I don't remember there ever being a gasket in all the VQs I've ever torn down, assembled, worked on, etc.
#25
the lower stamped steel oil pan has a gasket available at rockauto & etc. the mating surface between the block and the "oil pan" (as known to nissan) known as the "upper oil pan" around here, uses rtv.
Last edited by surban1; 12-05-2012 at 05:52 PM.
#27
I'm only referring to the lower oil pan not the upper oil pan that's a different ball game there. I'm leaking everywhere but don't have the time nor funds to fix them so my car will be driven till It can't move anymore then ill part her out
#28
that's what we're saying. the lower oil pan does not have any gasket from the factory. it uses rtv only (just as the upper oil pan does, though the lower uses a greater quantity because you are mating stamped steel to machined aluminum).
#29
I was looking through the FSM earlier today and realized my error. FSM does in fact call for RTV on the lower pan.
I was speaking from experience in general auto repair. Usually stamped steel pans would have a gasket, the VQ does not.
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