next oil change(700 miles) im gonna be replacin my oil pan gasket cuz its leakin pretty bad... anyone have any tips or hints when i replace this? any kind of sealant needed for this etc? thanks

 

have fun...i'd make sure you torque it all to spec so its on nice and tight. last thing you want is bad leak.

 

Is this for an LS or GSR?

On my GSR, you have to remove the flywheel cover to access 3 of the oil pan bolts. I don't know if it is the same for an LS.

The hardest part is trying to keep the gasket on the pan as you mate it to the block. You don't need any sealant, just torque the nuts to spec (9 ft/lbs) in a crosswise fashion and it will seal itself.

 

There's no real trick, it's pretty straight forward. You may have to remove the header, but I've heard of people doing it without that step. Make sure you don't get any kind of contaminants/debris in the oil pan before you put it back up. I'd clean it out nicely with some brake cleaner. Also, don't overtorque the nuts, you don't want to break any. Refer to the manual for the tightening sequence.

 

yeah this is on a gsr, is the flywheel cover gonna be hard to remove? ive dabbled on the top end of the motor on this car so far, not on the underside yet.

 

Flywheel cover is cake to remove.

 

No, it is very easy. There are two engine stiffeners that brace the tranny to the engine. These need to be removed via 3 bolts. Then, you can remove a few more bolts and remove the flywheel cover and see the rest of the oil pan bolts.

 

make sure you use some sort of gasket sealer, or silicon or something, cause those bastards love to leak... even w/ the new gasket..

 

Keeping the gasket lined up to the bolt holes while you put the pan back in its place is easy as raping the willing. Throw a SMIDGE of assembly lube on the bottom of the gasket so when you lay it on top of the pan it wont move when you try to align the holes up for the bolts. cake.
Sealer is a good idea but i never ran into problems with leaks after changing it. I might have been one of the lucky ones.

 

Hondabond works wonders.