what's going on everybody welcome back to the BTR Garage my name is Justin
in today's video we're going to be dropping the oil pan on my 2022 gr86 we're going to
check for RTV or silicone in the oil pickup as well as the oil pan itself we're going to take
an oil sample to send off to blackstone labs for analysis let's go ahead and get started
before we get into the DIY process if you do have a 2022 BRZ or GR86
i would highly recommend contacting your dealer first to get your oil pickup cleaned out and
checked out for this particular condition if not you can go ahead and jump into the DIY
just be aware this may affect your warranty if you do this yourself
in order to get started we got to remove the metal underbody panel to get access to the
oil pan and the oil drain plug we're going to start by draining the oil and capturing
a cup full of it for our blackstone oil analysis
it can be a little bit messy but you do want to dip the cup into the stream of oil you don't want
to capture the very first thing out of the pan set that aside clean things up we've put
a new gasket onto the oil drain plug and we're going to torque that to 29 foot-pounds of torque
next we're going to start removing the bolts for the over pipe that connects to the header we're
going to start removing the bolts that connect the header to the engine block itself get them
loosened up by hand and then we're going to get out the power tool to remove them the rest of the
way don't use the power tools right off the bat always remove them or loosen them by hand first
we also have to remove the front pipe from the rear of the exhaust i didn't
show that in the video in order to get the header to drop there once we have that done
we've got the oil pan exposed we can go ahead and start loosening up all of the bolts by hand
and then removing them the rest of the way with the power tool
now the silicon sealant that is used on the oil pan is very very sticky it holds the pan
on really tight to the engine block so i'm using a heat gun here you can use a blow
dryer to kind of soften up the glue or the silicone that's holding the pan to the block
and the tricky part here that is a little bit time consuming is getting the pan removed from
the engine block you're going to want to use a little pry bar preferably one with a wide face
you don't want to use like a screwdriver or a sharp tool and just patiently kind of pry
away at that passenger side corner that i was just prying at using a plastic tool to hold it open and
eventually you'll be able to get it knocked loose there and then peel it away from the engine block
we're going to inspect the inside of the oil pickup tube here
and you can actually see we've got some silicone rtv jammed up in the oil filter
in the pickup tube so the pickup tube filter is doing its job but that's also restricting flow as
we get more and more silicone stuck up in that tube over time more silicone builds up in that
area and restricts flow even more to the point of potentially causing damage to the engine
so now we'll begin the process of removing all of the old silicone from the engine block itself
as well as the oil pan itself which actually has a ton of silicone stuck to it we got to get
all of that off and cleaned off so it's nice and clean you're going to want a few tools a
pick a putty knife and some plastic tools as well and first thing we're going to do is actually
clean out that oil drain tube or the oil pickup tube by sticking the pick up in there and kind
of pulling out the little specks of silicone that is stuck up in there or little chunks of silicone
get those all out of there so it's nice and clean and this image here shows exactly what i pulled
out of my oil pickup this was only after 4000 miles so now you can see it is nice and clean
we have no more silicone stuck up in there and now we're going after the silicone that's stuck on the
face of the engine block or the mating surface where the oil pan goes you got to go at this for
a little while with your plastic tools eventually you'll get it off and then we're going to hit the
same thing on the oil pan itself peeling away the old silicone using the plastic tool to scrape away
any silicone you can also use the putty knife here just be very careful as you're going through and
scraping off the silicone for the next step you're going to need a little torque wrench some alcohol
and some permatex to seal the pan back to the engine we're going to use that alcohol
on the oil pan mating surface get it nice and cleaned up no oily residue we're going to do the
same thing for the mating surface on the engine itself ensure that it is nice and clean and dry
grab your permatex we're going to start making a bead around that mating surface on the engine
according to the service manual as you can see in the upper left hand corner you're going to
want to lay that bead all the way around and i like to put it around the bolt holes as well
make sure you have good coverage with no gaps in the sealant or the RTV
once we have a good bead of silicone sealant we're going to line up the oil pan holes and
press the pan into place and then start inserting the bolts by hand and get them all hand tightened
once they are all hand tightened you're going to want to torque them
in the manner as described here in this image or something close to it anyways i've got my
small torque wrench we're going to set it to 57 inch-pounds that is inch pounds 57 of them
very little pressure and we're gonna torque it to that spec per the image
that we just shared the shop manual torque spec get everything buttoned up to that spec
now that everything is torqued we should be good to go and ready to put the car back together
so we've got the oil pan back on the car we got that oil pickup cleaned up all of that
gunk taken out of it we cleaned up the face of the engine where the oil pan seats got all that
excess silicone off of it we cleaned up the oil pan itself got the face of that cleaned up and
all of the excess silicone removed and applied a nice neat and tidy bead of new silicone on the
oil pan area to seal that up so we should be good for the future and not have any potential problems
with oiling or oil pressure on the car now who knows if i would have had any issues to begin with
in the state that it was in i just got back from a 1500 mile road trip where we tracked the car out
at utah motorsports campus 70 minutes of pretty hard track time everything ran fine no oiling
issues no oil temperature issues the thing was perfect so like i said who knows if there would
have been any problem in the future but i'd rather be safe than sorry if you're concerned
that your own car might have this particular issue especially if you have a 2022 car i would highly
recommend contacting your dealer first and seeing if they can take care of it for you or will do it
at a low cost if you'd like to do it to yourself hopefully this video will put you on the right
track and make the job easy and don't forget this process also applies to the older cars
so even the 2020 and older brz 86 frs the same job will apply to those as they have the same
oil pickup and they've even been known to have the same issue so now we just have to put the car back
together get the header bolted up the exhaust put back together all of the under panels put back on
and of course we've got to put oil back in the car we'll throw on a new oil filter while we're at it
and we should be good to go and hopefully free of any potential issues that this
oil pickup being clogged might have caused in the future so thanks everybody for watching i
hope you enjoyed the video i hope it was helpful if you have any thoughts comments or questions
please leave them down below like usual i would love to hear from you stick around for more good
stuff coming up very soon stay safe out there i am checking out and we'll talk to you all next time