I finally got the bearing cap off, which was a feat unto itself!!!!(I think I could rewrite the instructions found on the gntype board and offer some additional advice/instructions..lol) Anyway, I started working on it this AM.I got a long skinny flat head screw driver and started digging the "factory" (?) sealent out of the side rails.I sprayed a lot of carb cleaner to try to soften the RTV "stuff" ... I finally got all of it out in bits and tiny pieces....took a 1 1/2 foot long punch and put in a bolt hole wiggled it front to back and walla..it came loose and came off......upon close examination lo and behold.... NO rear seal or even any evidence there was ever one installed..... The top half yielded the same results.....( I ran a long wire tie through it with NADA results....
Now lets back track..a friend and fellow GN owner asked me what the the oil pick up screen looked like when I took the pan off..I told him it was completely blocked with a debris that felt like card board..he said that was what was left of the factory rope seal.....Anyway, I'm sure that the loose rear pan bolts, lack of a rear oil seal, caused my GN to dump a stream of oil when I would pull into my inclined drive way, or park it at work after a 10 mile drive and was(is) responsible for my decline in oil pressure.....
Contrary to some advice given to me by the fine folks who have followed this thread, I used the Fel-Pro neoprene side rail seals and "nails" and the blue rubber Fel-Pro pan gasket..It would be difficult at best to "pump" anabolic RTV sealent into the side rails because I didn't pull the motor........And it may leak again but I feel confident it won't dump the oil out as it did without any seals at all.....So that's it!!! I'm going to put oil in it Thursday (20-50 Castrol) and will let the board know of my success or failure........Incidently, this is the first time I have ever done this type of repair to any of the cars I've owned........
Thanks for all the responses to this thread guys!!!!
Would I do it again??? In a new york minute!!!! I learned a lot and if I was marginally successful I feel I accomplished a lot...
Woody
Now lets back track..a friend and fellow GN owner asked me what the the oil pick up screen looked like when I took the pan off..I told him it was completely blocked with a debris that felt like card board..he said that was what was left of the factory rope seal.....Anyway, I'm sure that the loose rear pan bolts, lack of a rear oil seal, caused my GN to dump a stream of oil when I would pull into my inclined drive way, or park it at work after a 10 mile drive and was(is) responsible for my decline in oil pressure.....
Contrary to some advice given to me by the fine folks who have followed this thread, I used the Fel-Pro neoprene side rail seals and "nails" and the blue rubber Fel-Pro pan gasket..It would be difficult at best to "pump" anabolic RTV sealent into the side rails because I didn't pull the motor........And it may leak again but I feel confident it won't dump the oil out as it did without any seals at all.....So that's it!!! I'm going to put oil in it Thursday (20-50 Castrol) and will let the board know of my success or failure........Incidently, this is the first time I have ever done this type of repair to any of the cars I've owned........
Thanks for all the responses to this thread guys!!!!
Would I do it again??? In a new york minute!!!! I learned a lot and if I was marginally successful I feel I accomplished a lot...
Woody
