Naw. Just for barking orders while I kick it in the chair sippin' my beer! You live near Monterey or further south?
Seaside.
Stewart
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I currently own a 7.3 that i had the same problem out of, but didnt have the luck you did with, changing every thing from the out side, i am currently going to school for Caterpillar, so luckily it messed up on me at the schools shop, tried the trick of holding the inter threaded piece and was shooting for an easy fix needless to say, it wasnt long after that i heard the "ca- flop" of the threaded peice hittin the bottom of the oil pan. good lord i about had to go to revival after that. so now i guess my only option is to pull the pan, and from what i hear that is one pain in the A$$. if you know is it possible to remove the motor and trans mount bolts and jack up engine with out removing the turbo,intercooler pipes, exhaust etc? please reply im in deep need of a easy fix. i gotta make it back home for thanksgiving.
Welcome to FTE...It can happen to anybody because that is a very tricky job.I have changed the inner oring successfully but I had two safeties on it JIC.
I have read about loosening the motor mounts and jacking up the motor.Have not done it yet but some have here.They will have more advise shortly.We will get ya fixed up here.
I currently own a 7.3 that i had the same problem out of, but didnt have the luck you did with, changing every thing from the out side, i am currently going to school for Caterpillar, so luckily it messed up on me at the schools shop, tried the trick of holding the inter threaded piece and was shooting for an easy fix needless to say, it wasnt long after that i heard the "ca- flop" of the threaded peice hittin the bottom of the oil pan. good lord i about had to go to revival after that. so now i guess my only option is to pull the pan, and from what i hear that is one pain in the A$$. if you know is it possible to remove the motor and trans mount bolts and jack up engine with out removing the turbo,intercooler pipes, exhaust etc? please reply im in deep need of a easy fix. i gotta make it back home for thanksgiving.
Welcome to FTE. The oil pan won't come off without pulling the motor. You can jack the motor a couple of inches if you disconnect the mounts without pulling the turbo, but the pan gasket is RTV, so you're stuck with scraping and trying to clean things up so you can put the new RTV on for the re-install.
Do you have one of those snake cameras at the CAT shop? I've read where someone just drained the oil and used one of those snake cameras and a coat hanger or some type of stiff wire to go fishing.
I have heard of this happening and they fished it back up to the hole. I think they used a cut coat hanger and a lot of luck but it can be done. There is a thread on here about how he did it. I seen it when I was looking for how to fix mine.
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im probably going to just pull the turbo and intercooler pipes and oil pan its got 210k miles on it but dont want to have to go back and do this job over, or worst case it go to leaking agian when im not around some where conveient to fix it. when it started leaking i was on my way back to school and i had to put 10qts of oil in it just to get it back on the dipstick. but thanks for the help. i was trying to add a couple picture of my truck but when i click on insert picture it ask for the URL link. i've always had to browse to upload or insert a picture, can some one help me out on this.
When I was researching on fixing my own I came across a thread that showed a picture of this guys oil pan where he cut a small square in it and then welded it back because he dropped the flange in the abyss... Not recommending it , but its been done...
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