Had a lovely bounder pound on my oil pan. I now have an oil leak.

Any one replaced the oil pan on a '02 Xterra by themselves?

Complications? Things to be aware of?

Dealer wants to charge $385 for labor!

Lookin for some info!

Thanks

I dented mine awhile back on an xcursion but I was lucky enough that it didn't do anything more than damage the copper crushwasher.

To get to your question, a labor fee that high doesn't surprise me. If you look under there, there really isn't an easy way to disassemble the oil pan from the rest of the engine. They may have to lift the engine out to do that.

I was asking the same thing.

No leaks, but looks like this:


Edit to add Instructions:
Oil pan Removal:
1 Remove undercover.
2 Drain engine oil
3 Remove stabilizer bracket bolts (RH & LH)
4 Remove front propeller shaft from front differential carrier
5 Remove front drive shaft fixing bolts (RH &LH)
6 Remove front differential carrier bleeder hose
7 Remove front suspension crossmember
8 Remove differential front mounting bolts (RH &LH) and rear mounting bolts
9 Remove front differential carrier
10 Remove front differential carrier mounting bracket
11 Remove starter motor
12 Remove transmission carrier mounting bracket.
13 Remove engine mounting bolts or nuts (RH & LH)
14 Remove power steering mounting brackets (RH & LH)
15 Lift engine.
16 Remove relay rod.
17 Remove oil pan.

Blah. I'd just JB Weld the sucker unless you've tweaked the pan so it doesn't seal against the block or someething.

Brent