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Originally Posted by mnsweeps
My local toyota dealer in North Hollywood CA mentioned the oil pan is leaking and recommends pan resealing. He quoted $395  Is it that complex to do? I am not a car guy and have no idea..
if not the dealer who can do it ? Pepboys ? Sears auto ?
Okay here are 3 issues dealer said the car has and quotes.
1) Oil pan reseal - $395
2) Valve cover gasket - $170
3) Transmission oil pan - $140. |
None of those are complex...the last two are trivial; the first is slightly more involved since it usually requires popping loose a bit of the exhaust system (assuming the car spent it's life in South Cali, 'tho, rust shouldn't be an issue, so the exhaust system thing shouldn't be a problem).
Would you *like* to be a car guy? For $50 in tools (floor jack, jackstands, trouble light, a basic 1/4" metric socket set, and a 30mm socket) and less than that in parts, you could do #2 and #3. Another $20 in tools and about $10 in parts, and you could do #1.
I'm also curious how the dealer came up with the three items. Unless they took the time to clean the oil off of the motor, there's no way they could've determined the pan gaskets were leaking -- often there's so much oil coming from the distributor seal or the oil seals behind the timing cover (which, since oil flows down and to the rear of the vehicle, ends up on the pans) that you can't figure out where the oil is coming from until you've completely cleaned the motor and then looked for new leakage.
