Boombai

Recently noticed oil leaking from my 08 LS460. Looked under the car and looks like i need to replace the oil pan/gasket. Can someone help me find the parts needed to replace it? do i need a new gasket also or oil pan sealant? Is it a fairly easy job?

Thanks guys!

Doublebase

Personally I'd look higher up to make sure it's not something else traveling down appearing to be the oil pan gasket. Something like valve cover gaskets, or high pressure fuel pump gaskets make more sense. For your sake I hope it's not the pan, it looks like it's buried under there.

Boombai

We checked higher up and it seems okay no signs of oil, the pan didnt seem out of reach or anything? Looks like its fairly easy to remove i think

roadfrog

Depends if it's the upper pan gasket or lower pan gasket. Pray that it's the lower, cuz that's about a 3 hr job, whereas the upper is a 22.5 hr job (yikes). Parts are cheap - about 22 bucks for the gasket.

Boombai

Oh okay luckily i think its the lower pan, i can find the oil pan but not sure which is the right part for the gasket or sealant

roadfrog

Hmmmm...well, upon further investigation I think there's no actual gasket. Looks like they use a sealant (made by Aisin), as seen here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Engine-Oil-...NZNO9c&vxp=mtr

If it were me, I'd try a bottle of stop leak and go from there.

Boombai

thanks!! i'll look into that

roadfrog

No problem. You have nothing to lose by trying.....a few bucks for stop leak at your local Walmart.

snakehead

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Yeah my nightmare , I just replaced the lower pan and oil level sensor and still leaking , its got to be the upper pan....it seems to leak when its not parked flat ground..