My buddy came over today to have me help him replace his oil pan gasket on his 99 Honda civic (no badging on the car) I was wondering what the torque spec was for the oil pan bolts, his stupid ass forgot the Haynes manual.

thanks for any help.

EDIT: ok, I just took a look at it, and it appears that I would have to take off parts of the trannsmission housing to get to some of the pan bolts. Is there any trick to get around this? Has anyone ever done this that can lend some 1st hand experience?

The torque spec is 104 Inches-lbs (according to Haynes).

I think you just have to remove the small bracket thats between the transmission and the oil pan, not a hard thing to do, and the trans doesn't need any added support underneath while it's off. I had mine done by a shop & it only took about 1 hour to do (including oil change & RTV drying time) so it doesn't seem to be too hard to do. Good luck.

Yeah, I noticed the bracket and some exhaust had to be taken off, that's not what really bothered me, but where that braket connects to the tranny, the oil pan overhangs about 1.5 inches on top of the tranny, and I still wouldn't have had access to i'm guessing about 5-6 bolts.

I really wish I would have tried to take a picture while Iw as under there. If we decide to look at it again instead of him just taking it to a shop, I will definitly take a picture of it, I just can't beleive they would design it so that you have to take off 1/4 - 1/2 of the trannsmission casing just to take off the oil pan.

Thanks for the spec tho, if I decide to try to tackle this for him it will come in handy.