blew oil pan gasket out. help

ZachSav · Jan 13, 2010

so i had my car up in the air and noticed my oil pan gasket was forced out of the right side of my motor, im assuming bad pcv system. im going to put breathers on instead of the pcv system. could anything else cause this?

Win · Jan 13, 2010

Yeah if the motor has some miles on it and someone saw the Gasket " Sweating" they could have tightened it up and squeezed it out. If it still seals and your not loosing any real consumption of oil you might want to leave it for a while till you wanna tackle the job. It's not a hard one just takes a little time.

birel21y · Jan 13, 2010

Win said:
Yeah if the motor has some miles on it and someone saw the Gasket " Sweating" they could have tightened it up and squeezed it out. If it still seals and your not loosing any real consumption of oil you might want to leave it for a while till you wanna tackle the job. It's not a hard one just takes a little time.

+1 Its a time consuming job for sure. Mine did it too after 16 yrs. The gasket "swells" and comes out a bit. its from 15 lbs or torque on a rubber gasket for all those years. The rubber breaks down.

ZachSav · Jan 13, 2010

well ford has an updated pan gasket and bolts, its a cheap fix. im gonna tackle it next week sometime while im at work. no big deal

Witzy0070 · Jan 13, 2010

Lol, fresh oil change.

Matt94GT · Jan 14, 2010

my 91 had a leaking gasket, if they were ever replaced with cheap 2pc ones that can cause a leak. make sure u get the 1pc one.

modo · Jan 14, 2010

if you put a breather on the valve cover MAKE SURE you put a cap on the nipple on the tb of the line that goes from the valve cover to the throttle body. (im assuming its the same on a sn95 as the foxes)... if you do not that is un-metered air

Paul · Jan 14, 2010

modo said:
if you put a breather on the valve cover MAKE SURE you put a cap on the nipple on the tb of the line that goes from the valve cover to the throttle body. (im assuming its the same on a sn95 as the foxes)... if you do not that is un-metered air

+1

Or just tap it and stick a pipe plug in there like I did.