So I'm trying to get the oil pan off an auto ld9 and there's this effin bolt behind what I would call a spacer slug for the trans to engine. Looking at it from the ground would place it top left corner. Its proving to be a PITA. I thought oil pans where easy to drop. But no its harder to get the oil pan dropped then it was to completely remove the head of the motor.

Question is how do you guys get the oil pan out while its in the car still? I don't want to have to cut the lug off.

cut it off??!!! wtf?? if i remember there are TWO of those aluminum spacers..one has a bolt..which i hope you simply removed...the other has a STUD...so youll need to take the nut off then remove the stud with like a 7mm(or something like that) socket and the stud will simply thread right out. thats assuming yours is the same as mine.
remove those two and your "slugs" will drop right out.

why you should't buy autotragic car



JBO since July 30, 2001

It's the gf's. She blew up a piston and destroyed the head. (personally I drive a manual) its not like a spacer its castes into the trans looks like its there to put space for the flywheel? I'll take pics tomorrow am if i need too. Hopefully someone will be up at 11am MI. time. It's buggin the shizzz out of me. One bolt is keeping me from replacing a piston. Wtf.

That should just be a spacer you're talking about.



12.6 @ 114.6 MPH

ya just take out the stud.. the hardest part is getting the right angle to get it the oil pan between the subframe


2001 Olds Alero (LD9)
650 whp / 543 ft-lb
@turboalero

that stud is a nightmare most of the time. make damn sure you get the correct size on there so you dont round it off.

on an auto LD9 its just one aluminum spacer.

1.) remove nut on stud
2.) remove stud
3.) remove spacer
4.) guzzle beer



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