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Hi Gary, This EA82 is in a 88 GL 4WD 5sp wagon. I'm replacing all gaskets and seals except for rear main, valve seals and head gaskets. I'm working out of a Haynes manual. The procedure they give for removing the oil pan is to drop it a few inches and then to loosen the oil pickup tube and swivel it to allow the pan to drop the rest of the way. I got the pan off by jacking the engine up a few inches. I didn't actually read that part of the manual until I was looking for the procedure to remove the pickup to change the O-ring. I read a message from the archives that said that the oil pickup tube O-ring was a high failure item. The one of this car was brittle. My friend said that the car got hot once last summer because he left it idling with the A/C running. (He might have a weak fan clutch.) I've seen three O-rings that were distorted so far: The "Mickey Mouse" O-ring, the pickup O-ring and the passenger's side cam carrier oil feed passage O-ring. Someone's been into this engine pretty far. It looks like they might have had the heads off. One thing that surprised me is that there were no large O-rings in the Felpro gasket kit for the cam carriers. They included a tube of RTV and instructions to make one. They included two cam cover O-rings though.

UPDATE - Well... It came out with the slide hammer and a whole lot of whacking. I noticed that the bore of the engine case where the pickup goes in is galled. The o-ring was smashed and badly distorted. I'm sure the engine was sucking air from that point as well. I wish I knew how that ended up liike that.

Hello to all. I'm working on a 88 EA82 for a friend. It has the "tick of death" syndrome. I bought a complete gasket set and started replacing gaskets and seals. The oil pump shaft looked good (no groove). The 'Mickey Mouse" seal had been installed incorrectly. One of the small holes was pinched inward. After I got the oil pan off, I tried to get the oil pickup tube out. No go. Someone must have used a hardening sealer to glue the pipe into the engine case. I've used padded vise grips on it. I've applied heat to it. Nothing's helped so far. It's in there tight! It will turn a little bit, but it's not come out more than a fraction of an inch even with hard tugging. I think I'm going to end up cutting the screen off and using my slide hammer on it. The thing I'm afraid of is not being able to get a new one. I hope it's still available. If not, does anyone have one they could sell me? Many thanks!