86 951 oil pan need help

[Bashcraft]

I believe my oil pan gasket is leaking after 16 years. What do I have to remove to get to the oil pan gasket other than the obvious oil pan bolts? Any tips or cookbook steps? Does the rack have to come out? pls help.

[1.2gees]

There's quite a bit of information on this subject on this board, as well as others and websites. Do a search, and you should run into a good amount of information.

To answer your question, you're going to have to remove a lot, including the cross over pipe (which means intake manifold also), and the subframe (and that means rack will have to be unbolted, engine supported from above), etc. The gasket surfaces have to be very very clean upon re-installation or it will leak, and again, and again...
Ahmet

[DannoXYZ]

Yeah, Ahmet's understating the need for having the surfaces very clean on the pan-gasket surfaces. ANY oil at all will cause the gasket to slip out when you start up the car and drive around. It's also very, very hard to keep the bottom of the block clean and spotless when the engine's in the car because oil drips down the side of the block and kinda hangs off the bottom everywhere.

Don't forget to use the official Porsche engine-holder:



When in doubt, just yank the engine!