What is the quickest way to change the oil pan gaskets in a 1995 cadillac sts?

the car is leaking oil - quite a bit and it costs $1700 to fix it how do I do this myself.What is the quickest way to change the oil pan gaskets in a 1995 cadillac sts?
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There are a LOT of wires and a LOT of hoses going to that engine which makes it a major pain in the ***. So work it this way:





You know you need to pull the engine because you know you need to pull the pan to replace the gasket and you can't pull the pan with the subframe in the way.





So here's the trick: Use a cherry picker, rent, or borrow one if you don't have one. You can find them cheap and sell them for the same price you bought one for. Hook it up and support the engine using the cherry picker. Now get up under your car and unbolt the motor mounts to the subframe, take out the subframe, it's the frame your engine is setting on, it comes right out with a few bolts. Now drain the oil, remove the pan, scrape the old gasket off precisely, place the new gasket on the pan, put the pan back on, bolt the subframe back in, bolt the engine back to the subframe, disconnect the cherry picker.





When it's all said and done, you spent 1 evening at the most and less than $30. Add the price of the cherry picker and maybe more like $130 but as I said, you can sell it later, or take it back and say it didn't work LOL





The beauty of this is you didn't really disconnect ANY of the wires or hoses to the engine. That takes forever to put those back on.





You can do it, just dig in.