As a suggestion: If you decide to remove the pan and replace the gasket, get the 1" pan spacer from one of this site's vendors. It will give you extra oil capacity. More oil is always better.

 

Do not pay $200 for the oil pan replacement its really little and takes about 15minutes from start to finish and i used a real gasket from autozone i dont trust the rtv by itself 8 months and no leak

 

There's no need to have the stealership do the job of resealing your oil pan. Check with Nissan or any qualified shop, shouldn't cost more than an hours labor + parts....Gary

 

Is this the one you ordered?


http://www.autozone.com/autozone/par...323948_0_5285_





How hard is it to remove old rtv gasket?



I would assume drain oil unscrew and remove all bolts clean pan with blade and install new gasket.


Do I put any silicone anywhere?

 

yup thats the one and yeah scrape with a razor and usually u only put silicon (with gasket) on like corners but this oil pan has all round edges but i went ahead and put a small bead all the way around anyway plus gasket also get a new washer for ur drain plug. worked like a charm for me and since u allready did the oil cooler o ring u should be good to go and put new oil dont be cheap and try to reuse ha ha

 

what silcone and where exactly did you put it? between the gasket? or around the edges? did you apply any near the bolt?

 

on the pan make a barrier inbetween the holes and the inside of the pan only a small bead

 

what silicone? any high temp silicone? i am looking for either clear or gray, i have some at home which is orange and dont want to use

 

also, what are the torque specs for the bolts? i don't want to over tighten them. Also i heard you have to tight them evenly when putting new gasket. is that true?

 

yeah any high temp rtv silicon i used orange

 

anyone know torque specs?

 

just hand tight with rachet dont put any muscle into it at all but u might wanna look up the order start in the middle work ur way out

 

A buddy of mine suggested I drop this in since it's a very minor leak.

http://barsproducts.com/catalog/view...stop-leak-e10l


Thoughts???

 

Seems like a temporary solution if it actually works. Better off just fixing the issue.

 

I would rather pass on stop leak