Oil Pan Removal
Team Owner
Joined: Feb 2003
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From: Lake Norman NC
Take the castle nuts off the two joints on the passanger side and pop them loose...probably need to hammer a pickle fork between there, but they'll eventually break free. Then you'll have all the clearance in the world to drop the pan. Hope you got a Fel Pro 1-piece gasket...makes life so much easier and better. 
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Pro
Joined: Sep 2004
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From: Minnesota
Originally Posted by Redshark6974
Take the castle nuts off the two joints on the passanger side and pop them loose...probably need to hammer a pickle fork between there, but they'll eventually break free. Then you'll have all the clearance in the world to drop the pan. Hope you got a Fel Pro 1-piece gasket...makes life so much easier and better.
I did get a Fel-Pro 1 piece gasket.
Race Director
Joined: Mar 2001
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From: Living in the Hartland
Yup pickle fork and BFH, once it breaks lose you can pull down and forward giving the needed room to pull the pan. The 1-piecers are great. 
BTW Have heard if you do not have headers you can unbolt the idler arm bracket from the frame, sounds easier than beating with the BFH.
BTW Have heard if you do not have headers you can unbolt the idler arm bracket from the frame, sounds easier than beating with the BFH.
Le Mans Master
Joined: Oct 2001
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From: Wildwood IL
Originally Posted by Fevre
BTW Have heard if you do not have headers you can unbolt the idler arm bracket from the frame, sounds easier than beating with the BFH.
Eddie
Pro
Joined: Nov 2004
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From: North Alabama
To remove the ps ram from the frame, are you talking about the 4 nuts holding the bracket? or pulling the ram out of the bracket? reason I ask is that I loosened the 4 bolts on the bracket and they are loose bolts, ie, dont appear welded to the inside of the frame...kinda concerns me...thanks.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Oct 2001
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From: TN
oil pan removal
The four nuts you loosened that retain the power steering ram bracket should be attached to bolts that are retained from the factory installation having two of the bolts attached to one bracket and the other two attached to a similiar bracket. This is why the bolts don't turn when you tighten the nuts. The bolt brackets should not fall in the frame just removing the bracket. However you could run some coat hanger wire around them to keep them from being bumped up into the frame.
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From: The Dirty, Dirty South
Originally Posted by Fevre
BTW Have heard if you do not have headers you can unbolt the idler arm bracket from the frame, sounds easier than beating with the BFH.
It works even with headers. That's how I did mine.
Melting Slicks
Joined: Sep 2002
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From: Engineers do it better.
Originally Posted by Fevre
... you can unbolt the idler arm bracket from the frame, sounds easier than beating with the BFH.
Just did mine last weekend. remove two bolts from the frame, and there is enough room to get the pan out.
