Your advice appreciated:

On the T2 front cover, where the turbo oil return line mates up, the threads were damaged previously and not caught by me until install, and the fastener never seated. I went ahead & purchased a helicoil kit to re-do. Well, upon initially blasting the hole w/ some cutting fluid, I realized it MIGHT go thru into the sump. Checked a spare T2 front cover I had laying around, sure enough. Carefully drilled thru, making sure as many shavings as possible were evacuated outside, but there's going to be an inherent amount that fall in. Especially when tapping, & the fact that it's cast, so the "shavings" are always very small chips. I'm convinced filling the motor up several times with oil & letting it drain as I fill, should be sufficient chip flushing. I did my best not to let any, but it's unavoidable. But I'm curious to see how many think I should pull the pan instead? Going by the following facts, please blast me an opinion.

-Engine is in the car, and has an RB oil pan baffle.

-Not "in a rush", so pulling the pan is do-able, just prefer to not.

So, will the flushing be sufficient, or should I pull the pan to be safe??

Thanks!

 

Is pulling the front cover such an undertaking that it's not an option?

 

It's an option, I just hate working in reverse, haha. I'm going to go for it though.

 

I have done this before, but do not recommend it.


Dip your dril bit in vasaline. Make sure you have a THICK coating of it on the drill bit. Drill until it just pokes through. Then clear all the chips and put even MORE vasaline this time. Dril through and it should catch 99.9% of the chips,

 

solution was biting the bullet & pulling the pan. There was A LOT more shavings in there than I thought, so I'm glad I did it.

 

pulling the pan on the FC isn't that big of an ordeal. better safe than sorry.

 

I just did a front cover swap and I am so glad the engine was in front of me on the ground.It made swapping so easy I had to laugh at why I lost sleep thinking about doing it.

The hardest part actually was getting the Trans to mate.I spent hours trying it on the ground.
Then IDEA..lol!
I put the engine on a skid Face down and dropped the trans from above, onto the back of the engine and the input shaft slid into Pilot bearing..Plop..slick like Butter...Tightened the clutch through the inspection holes.

 

I wonder if wrapping a shop towel around an air blast gun, stuffing it in the oil filler, and then having someone put some air pressure to the engine while one drills the front cover might force the chips right out the hole as it's drilled?

 

probably not, because the debris is getting driven into the engine with the reamer.