I was in the action of cleaning the breather box and oil trap for this car when I noticed there is no hose for the oil to drain into the sump, so I purchased it from IPD together with the oil basin gasket and a new copper washer for the oil plug when changing oil.
Once down there draining the oil I realized removing the sump or oil pan is not that straight forward as I was thinking...A lot of the bolts are not so easy to reach. Anyone has any advice, I ran short at the job and want to double-check that there is no way to put it back from above plus I am not sure if the hose is in there or what...
Anyone knows of any combo of wrenching and extensions and sockets to remove the basin without lifting the engine? I can see if I remove the flywheel cover there are almost half tor two-thirds of the bolts off but the ones under the cross member under the engine (not sure name) what If I remove the rubber engine supports and jack the engine up a little bit in order to get more space in there? as long as I don't need to disengage the engine from the tranny etc... I work in the underground parkade of a strata condominium hence there is no a lot of nice lifting tools etc, that would be a travel to the mechanic... hence putting me back like 1k or so, not the route I wanna take.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated, I am putting the car for sale and there are a few projects like this one on the go... so far not having much luck...
