Honda-tech,

So I picked up a car lately, and i got home to change the oil, but i noticed some peculiar things around the oil pan... the bolts/nuts that hold up this oil pan are not all uniform. some are bolts, some are nuts, and then on a couple bolts, the nuts are missing! i'm kind of lazy to check my other car - a gsr, to see if this was supposed to be the case... to have some bolts used to keep the pan up and on others, to be nuts (if that makes any sense...) here are some pictures:

Picture 1: (you'll see on the left, it's a nut... and then you'll see on the right that the nut is MISSING!)


Picture 2: (now, you'll see a bolt, MISSING nut, bolt, and bolt)


What the heck is going on??? I changed the motor oil and there doesn't seem to be any oil leaking, though... for now at least

 

The oil pan is held on with a combination of bolts and nuts. If the hole is completely empty, the STUD has fallen out. The reason why they are all gone is because the were not torqued down correctly.

 

Jo, the oilpan has threaded studs and bolts. Your leak is def. because you are missing some of the fasteners. Easy fix... we can hit it on the 10th. Get a new gasket and new bolts.

 

what kind of car did you get? LOL

 

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thanks!

 

Get a few nuts too.

 

you know what i got

 

Yeah, a 4 door GSR

 

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no... i was looking for another db8... but i decided to get a 2-door. it's still sinking in and i still feel sick seeing my beat up db8. i don't think the fact i picked up a two door will sink in till i sell the db8 and my new car is sitting in my garage... ugh

 

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Oh I wonder what you guys could be doing on that weekend?

 

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Oh I wonder what you guys could be doing on that weekend? </TD></TR></TABLE>

Yep, swapping the C5 with the C1 and shipping you the C1. I hope it is at least 50* out that day. Nothing like laying back down on a 30* garage floor for 2 hours.

 

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I'll disagree with you on that Migs, I bought my car new and at 25,ooo miles some of mine had started to back out. Then I brought it in for a warranty claim many thousand miles later and the dealer saw that some were missing and some were only finger tight. There was no explanation given for this, but my reasoning is the vibrations, heat/cold got them loose. And to make sure of one point I almost forgot, I did tq them to spec at 25,ooo and they still got loose. I have just added them to the normal maintenance list of things to do at each oil change.