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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Jun 2017 Posts: 370 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2017 Posts: 370 | I have a 49 3600 with a 216 in it. Will I be able to pull the oil pan off and out to replace the gasket just by removing the “screws”?
Should I replace the screws with bolts? Any advise would be helpful.
Leaks pretty bad.
Thanks Don
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| | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 7,442 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 7,442 | 1st..the pan is removable w/o pulling the engine. No need to replace the "screws", they are reusable.
Martin
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| | | | | Joined: Jun 2017 Posts: 370 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2017 Posts: 370 | Just thought a bolt would be better than a screw.
Don
Can’t begin to tell you how much I hate the name Stovebolt.
| | | | | Joined: May 2015 Posts: 9,830 Housekeeping (Moderator) Making a Stovebolt Bed & Paint and Body Shop Forums | | Housekeeping (Moderator) Making a Stovebolt Bed & Paint and Body Shop Forums Joined: May 2015 Posts: 9,830 | Just thought a bolt would be better than a screw. It's just semanitcs. Most of us think of wood screws or sheet metal screws when someone says "screw". But what we all know as bolts are also called hex head cap screws. Look them up on McMaster Carr or another site. They're just screws with machine threads instead of tapered threads like wood screws have.
Kevin 1951 Chevy 3100 work truckFollow this saga in Project JournalPhotos 1929 Ford pickup restored from the ground up. | 1929 Ford Special Coupe (First car) Busting rust since the mid-60's If you're smart enough to take it apart, you darn well better be smart enough to put it back together. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,060 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,060 | If the length and threads are the same, and the bolts have what looks like a flat washer on them, it could be easier to put them back in while working from under the truck. Put the bolt in a socket with an extension and screw them in with a ratchet.
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1952 1-ton Comml. W/Grain Body
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2015 Posts: 336 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2015 Posts: 336 | The bolts off a small block V8 oil pan will work.
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| | | | | Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 592 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 592 | Don, I use bolts so that I can use my torque wrench. I tend to over-tighten if I don't. The middle bolts get tightened to a lower setting than the four corner bolts. Working from memory here, but as I recall the middle bolts get set to 6-7 foot pounds and the corner bolts get set to 12-15. I also use lock washers.
Matt | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,674 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,674 | Be sure to support the vehicle om jack stands by the frame, not the axle. That will give you a couple more inches of clearance between the pan and the axle as you lower it. If you remove any rod bearing caps, be VERY careful to account for the number and placement of all the shims between the rod and the cap. That's how the oil clearance of the rods is set.
Jerry
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| | | | | Joined: Jun 2017 Posts: 370 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2017 Posts: 370 | Should I use a gasket seal along with the gasket? Or just the gasket?
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Don
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| | | | | Joined: Jun 2017 Posts: 370 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2017 Posts: 370 | For me no matter the threads. If it has a hex head it’s a bolt. If it has a straight slot it’s an old style screw. If it has a clutch slot it gets replaced so the next guy doesn’t have the problems we did.
Thanks Don
Can’t begin to tell you how much I hate the name Stovebolt.
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 7,442 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 7,442 | Don, read the Stovebolt Tech Tip about Pan Gasket replacement. Tech Tips sub-section "Engines".
Martin
'62 Chevy C-10 Stepside Shortbed (Restomod in progress)
'47 Chevy 3100 5 Window (long term project)
‘65 Chevy Biscayne (Emily)
‘39 Dodge Business Coupe (Clarence)
“I fought the law and the law won" now I are a retired one!
Support those brave men/women who stand the "Thin Blue Line"! Hug a cop!
USAF 1965-1969 Weather Observation Tech (I got paid to look at the clouds)
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