[randy78]

i woulkdknt worry about running the dust cover over the converter


i always remove them on my vehicles and have never had any trouble due to it


i have these bolts from many part outs and from ones i removed the covers from

lots of them

a junkyard or someone like me who has lots of them is the way to get them


the TV cable does not go through the firewall

(it is a TV if it is a 2004r or 700r4 trans, and is a kickdown if its any other trans)

it is tricky to reattach the trans end of the cable to the hook in the tranny and is hard to see will need a mirror and a flashlight and some luck and patience usually


oil pan you will have ot jack up the engine some but not that big of a deal really

exhaust cross over pipe will be in the way usually and youll have to unbolt it from the manifolds

may break the studs without using heat on the nuts

you could do the oil pan gaskets without dropping the pan very far but it would be tricky scraping off the old gaskets

but can be done


how bad is it leaking and are you sure its the oil pan and not the valve covers leaking down the back of the block,

or the RMS leaking ?

often VC gaskets leaking looks like oil pan leaking