In an effort to make the Z more road-worthy, I'm going to attack the source of the leaks underneath the car. Over the weekend I started with the oil pan gasket. Many say that you cannot do this without pulling the engine out of the car, but it is possible with quite a bit of wiggling & shifting of the pan.
Once off the car I started cleaning off the remains of the old gasket. 40 years of gunk & grime took quite a while to clean up, but in the end it was worth it.
I also came up with a trick to raise the cleaned pan and the new gasket all at the same time without it slipping around. I simply put about 8 drywall anchors (the blue ones) through the holes in the pan and through the holes in the gasket. After getting it in position & raising it up, the anchors popped out as I began putting the 25+ bolts back in.
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| Old gasket & gunk on the oil pan |
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| More remnants of the gasket |
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