FleXJ01

Took out all the bolt , pryed th pan loose. Now I can not seem to drop it as the cross member is in the way. And even if you need to drop that a little do you just snake out the dipstick? What's the process for removing this guy? Thanks

hitalonit

the dipstick tube is supposed to come apart there is an oring and its supposed to pop off .... i cut mine and used tubing to replace it so i never have the problem of getting it off again. alot of the people on here will tell u the o ring pop off area rusts

FleXJ01

Are you suppose to be able to reach the O ring from the inside or outside of the pan ?

hitalonit

pull on the bottom of the pan... there are two bolts you have to undo first... 2 of them on the firewall

djb383

Ours just wouldn't separate so a small tubing cutter, rubber fuel line and clamps made it easy.

FleXJ01

Dj, are you superman. I just borrowed same cutter from a buddy. 10 min later not even a score. Gonna jam
My grinder in there in the morn....

djb383

Dull tubing cutter????? Got 'er done in nothin' flat. Don't slip and hit a tranny fluid line.

jimbo98xj

i just used a little muscle and pulled the pan an dipstick tube out all in one

brunning

If your dipstick tube is frozen (as mine was this past Saturday), you can take out the upper dipstick tube mounting screw, bend the mounting bracket back so it clears the bell housing, which then allows you to pull the pan farther down from underneath. That gives you a lot more room to work if you decide to cut the tube and splice it with a section of hose, and it also gives enough clearance to do the whole job of replacing the filter and gasket that way. It's a lot harder to clean the old gasket off and to clean the inside of the pan that way, but if you're a little patient and careful, you can do it. I did it that way, with the pan dangling down and the dipstick tube still attached.

That little slip coupling in the dipstick tube is a really miserable piece of engineering.

djb383

Why make it hard?....just remove the pan and get it out of the way.

sportrider

this^^^^^^^^

FleXJ01

This was m old xj but ended up just cutting with grinder like I said and fixing with rubber hose and clamps.

djb383

Everybody has tried pulling on the pan to remove it.....it's a piece of cake IF it separates where it supposed to but that's the problem, sometimes they do, most of the time they don't. Next time (later this year), ours should be a piece of cake. Can't remember now who did the original tubing cutter, hose and clamps post, but thank u, thank u, thank u....works like a charm.

siskiyousam

I did mine last night and what a pain. I called a friend who has a shop and he told me to use a small Porpane Torch to heat it up. I did that and it fell apart perfectly. Killed the oil ring in the tube, but I had one laying around that fit just right. An hour wasted fighting with it, looking up stuff on the net, two minutes with the torch!!! Had a garden hose near by in case I lit on fire, but nothing happened, it was only on for about 30 seconds. I hate reinventing the wheel everytime I go in the shop...

cruiser54

And how dirty was the screen? Are you glad you changed it, or would it have been just fine if you'd done a drain and fill?