[getmygoat]

Originally Posted by West Coast GTO

When you talk about pulling an engine to replace the pan and rear oil seal, you actually mean LIFTING the engine, right?
As in, unbolting the motor mounts, trans support bracket and chain lift the engine from the top to get the necessary clearance to slide the pan out. Then remove the rear main cap, pull, slide out the old rear seal and , following the instructions, slide in the new Viton type seal and trimming per instructions. Install cap, pan with new gaskets and reverse dis-assembly.

Pulling the pan in a Pontiac with the motor in the car is very difficult, easier to pull motor. The op doesn't seem to be that experienced with all this, the last thing I would recommend is trying to change a rear seal with motor in car.

[Greg Reid]

Originally Posted by getmygoat

Pulling the pan in a Pontiac with the motor in the car is very difficult, easier to pull motor. The op doesn't seem to be that experienced with all this, the last thing I would recommend is trying to change a rear seal with motor in car.

Yeah, pulling the engine doesn't really add that many steps to the alternative and you can do a much more efficient job IMO.
I will say again Darth- I'm a big fan of finding a problem before trying to fix a problem.
Diagnosing the source of a problem always ends up in less work than 'shot-gunning' (That is, changing a bunch of stuff hoping that one of them will fix the problem).

• Check the oil pressure or find some other reason for the light coming on (if the light is actually coming on during normal operation)
• Find the leaks
• Fix the leaks

[Darth Menace]

ok good news. The light doesn't go on after it's started. I guess I haven't started it for a while...

it is about -5C here so it ran a little rough at the beginning, but a bit of time and it ran/idled fine with no low oil pressure light.

I am still going to get an oil pressure gauge, but false alarm.

Now to clean the spots and find the leak as per the first thread