Drips from oil pan bolts

[adam_knox]

So I changed the oil in the Chrysler on Monday. Noticed there wasn't quite 5 quarts that came out. Need to check the oil level a bit more often. I know I'm not burning oil (or at least I shouldn't be as the engine was rebuilt like years ago). But there was a few drips of oil around a few of the nuts holding the oil pan to the underside of the engine. I wiped those off a early in spring and gave 'em a few spins to make sure they were tight. Seems like oil is seeping through. Can I just take a few of the nuts out and put some sealing caulk around them, or do I need to put in a whole new gasket?

Just for the record, I used to be dilligent about checking the oil level everytime I got gas, but the two gas stations I go to stopped putting paper toweling out as well as squeegees to do the windows! So that's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it!

[John Mulders]

so not too tight but also not too loose?

[adam_knox]

Thanks Norm, now I feel even worse! I'm the cause of my own problems! Oh well, I'm just gonna have to learn to be gentle...gonna have to ease off the steroids!

[JIPJOBXX]

Those studs can be sealed by using a little string and some permatex. Just unloosen the nuts and rap a little string around the stud and then finish oft with a little permatex. Works every-time for me.

[Normspeed]

Those studs can be sealed by using a little string and some permatex. Just unloosen the nuts and rap a little string around the stud and then finish oft with a little permatex. Works every-time for me.

Great tip. I hope I can remember that one the next time I find one of those annoying leaks.

[TodFitch]

Those studs can be sealed by using a little string and some permatex. Just unloosen the nuts and rap a little string around the stud and then finish oft with a little permatex. Works every-time for me.

They use studs for the oil pan on the P-15? My PD uses "hex head cap screws" (i.e. bolts).

[Don Coatney]

They use studs for the oil pan on the P-15? My PD uses "hex head cap screws" (i.e. bolts).

P-15's also use bolts. I do not know of any Mopar flathead engines that use studs for the oil pan.

[billwillard]

Torque to 15 lbs

[randroid]

but it never hurts to tighten them in the ol' 'opposite side method' (or whatever you want to call it) just like, and for the same reasons, you tighten a head or a wheel.

-Randy