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[QUOTE="1killerz, post: 1346768, member: 24585"] [b]oil pan and trying to fire the powerstroke[/b] So, not all goes as planned sometimes, and life is just that; something new every moment. My neighbor that was to help me lift the PS with his front end loader. Well, my neighbors a hunter. His dad's Bobcat is only to be run by their family. So he's hunting. What to do? Grabbed the cherry picker (engine hoist), a bottle jack, and a few beers. Now I always say this, and its worth a repeat. No hillbillies were harmed in the process, but damn near. Some pictures, cause it didn't happen without a picture, right? Not in this case. No time for picture. The cherry picker was able to lift the girth. but just enough to tease us with maybe 1/2 inch of clearance of the front cross member. Well, lets grab a bottle jack, push up on the bell housing with it, and make it happen. Now, at this point, I must throw out a disclaimer. Master Chief Willard was under the truck working the bottle jack, we had (disclaimer alert) [B][U]assumed[/U][/B] the transmission was bolted into its cross member (we were wrong), and I was asked to pump one or two more times on the cherry picker. The disclaimer here is never be under a truck with 1000 plus pounds overhead, without checking all mount points. So I pumped on the Cherry Picker, Master Chief Willard pumped on the bottle jack, then the motor jumped. Not to life mind you, but forwards and up about 3 total inches, as the transmission mounting bolts freed themselves from the cross-member, enough that the oil pan freed itself from its snuggly confines and crashing to the concrete. Willard may (or may not) have shat himself at that moment, but all I could think of was "so this is how one of us dies; under a truck?" Once again, no hillbillies were injured. Willard and I lived on to fight other battles. But I digress... We cleaned up the oil pan mounting surfaces on the block using 000 steel wool, brake cleaner, and a modified steel scraper. Works great, as there was a ton of sealant on the mating surfaces, enough to make me wonder why I didn't have Small Block Ritchie (the guy who put in the motor and fabbed the motor mounts) at least check all that crap out first. Oh well, next time. Oil pan went on smoothly, everything torqued down to spec, good to go, or are we? Guess what, now we have to line it back up to make sure everything can be securely mounted again (this time with the transmission mounted as well). That took a while...but its done.... [/QUOTE]
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