Oil pan cleaning

Yeah that's pretty much par for the course You could also pour chemical in through the oil filler hole and just put enough to lay on the bottom of the pan and eat away the sludge but of course taking it off is definitely the way to go with you I'm going to do that sort of thing. Once oil consumption starts it's really difficult to rein it back in. You might a little bit. But on a generation too you just start running cheap supermarket oil until you're done with the car I mean I've got one that's using oil now I don't see it out the tailpipe and it's not on the ground but it's using it and so we're running $0.99 quarts of oil doesn't matter what kind or any of that We almost don't change the oil in that particular vehicle anymore when it's driven enough enough of it vanishes that when we replenish it pretty similar to an oil change and with the mileage that's on this vehicle it's not something that we're trying to save the engine on when it goes I may put another engine in it I may not I have four of these this is the work vehicle and right at 400k and a thousand miles the oil is halfway down the stick I just top it off with the cheap stuff and continue running service calls and local running sometimes going an hour or two away no problem.

 

I think it's all done with FIPG I don't think there's a gasket available or was one there may be now and if I was to take this off and there was a gasket available I'd put the gasket back on just because.

 

Unless an oil pan has copious leaking I wouldn't touch it, don't see the point. Doubly so if it's using Form-In-Place gasket.

But anyway, attached repair manual excerpt has info on the reinstall.

 

Is there something wrong and going on here or is this just a housekeeping or something these cars usually go to 400K with out ever doing anything with the oil pan or the head or valves or anything generally unless they've just been beat by real doofus types which is possible but many times not so much these cars were kind of a premium when they were first put out so the kinds of people that were buying them weren't real doofus types and they were generally families and whatnot trying to take care of the car and not using it for deliveries and Uber and GrubHub they hadn't been invented yet Domino's drivers were kids so they couldn't afford them so these were generally used properly and well by reasonably educated folk. And I generally try to get them from those people when they're getting ready to send them to the tow lot or the junkyard because they're at their wit's end with batteries and CM monitor displays and what have you that tells most people it's been close to 20 years it's time.