1982 f100 I6 - I am removing the transmission, bellhousing, flywheel and block plate. Does this give me enough room to remove the oil pan as well, Without jacking up the engine?

Jim

 

No. The engine pan will hit the crossmember.

 

This would NOT be the time to mess with the pan. When you jack the engine up from the bottom, the tranny/transfer case and it's mount help steady the engine has you take loose the front engine mounts and lift it up. If you take loose the front engine mounts now, there will be nothing at all to hold the engine in place.

 

Amen! In fact, you are so close to having the engine out when the tranny is out that you should go ahead and pull it. Put it on a stand, turn it over, and pull the pan. One of the guys on here said something like he'll let the truck catch on fire and burn before he pulls the pan with the engine in the truck again.

 

I vaguely remember seeing that quote, but I also thought it referred to another engine...a 351M, maybe? In my experience, changing the oil pan on the 300 with the engine in the truck isn't that terrible, as long as you jack it up and slip a block of 2x4 under each motor mount. But I second what was said above, don't do it with the transmission removed. With nothing supporting the engine in the back, I could see that job going very, very wrong.

 

This reminds me of when I was 17-18 years old dropping the oil pan on my old 84 1/2 ton 4x4 with the ol six shooter in my parent's driveway. Man that was not fun. I remember having to jack the engine up as high as it could go and still have to shoehorn that long friggin pan in and out of there. I did the oil pan in my 96 F150 300 six a few years ago, the trans was out and the flywheel was off. IIRC I took the fan off and the upper intake. I raised the engine with the cherry picker. All things considered it went pretty smoothly, while I was in there I regasketed the side cover and valve cover. Not particularly an enjoyable task, but it's not impossible either.

 

Now using a cherry picker would work. You would have control of the engine that way with the tranny disconnected.

 

If it was carbed I most likely would have pulled it completely out. I didn't feel like having to deal with having unhook all the fuelie stuff. It wasn't too bad.