HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM!!!!! Options

[ne14914]

OK - I tried to change the oil pressure switch - hoping this would rid me of my oil leak problem, and while installing the new one, I dropped/lost in in the tin (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)

While looking inside, where the switch goes, I could see the oil, and it looked as if it was being syphoned - you know like gulp, gulp - and the gulps were in sync with the drips coming from up underneath the car.

So - I have two problems / questions:

1. Do you think a magnent will pull the switch out? Its not visible (IMG:style_emoticons/default/splat.gif) and if not - is it difficult to remove the tin? If not, how do I go about it? I took out the flat head screws, but the tin didnt move.

2. If it is not the switch - (it looks like its coming from the cooler - I hope not - but if it is, can anyone guide me through removing the cooler without dropping the engine? - And is there anything else I should check before I assume its the cooler?

Thanks - ALL help is appreciated

[Malmz]

More power to you if you can do all that in 15 minutes! I usually end up fighting something. This time there was a CV bolt that was partially stripped by whoever installed it, and the remote oil cooler lines were a beatch to get off the barbs while trying to save the hoses.

Couple of notes:

If you are going to do any head work, remove the headers first. Kind of a beatch to work on those bolts with the motor on a jack, cart, or whatever.

I usually don't put the engine on a jack, instead:

Loosen the 4 trans mount bolts. Use two floor jacks, each under one end of the engine mount bar. Snug them up. Lower the car as much as possible, and roll a furniture dolly under the motor. The furniture dolly is nice, carpeted, and very stable. Undo the front mount bolts, release the floor jacks slowly and lower the motor onto the furniture cart.

Move one of the jacks to the back and support the trans. Remove the bolts, then lower the assembly the rest of the way onto the furniture cart.

Now you have your floor jack (s) available to raise and lower the car, do other work, and not be an expensive, slippery, tippy, engine dolly!

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