I read about Lucid and Fitzfitzgerald and changing the oil pan gasket in the 200 section also posted this there.

I have a 1994 940 I bought last week. I am replacing the rear main seal and have the transmission, ring gear and torque converter out, exhaust off, and after looking at the oil pan, I am fairly sure there are places rust is about to go through. I have been driving these Minnesota 940s (lots of rusty cars here) for many years and have never seen an oil pan so rusty.

I pulled one of the parts car engines today and pulled the oil pan after the engine was out, sandblasted it, and painted it with POR-15 and a red rustoleom. The transmission, exhaust, radiator, and a few other parts were already out of that car and I wasn't too concerned about saving the old hoses, etc.

Since I have the transmission out, do you folks know whether I can loosen the motor mounts and lift the engine up enough to replace the oil pan without dropping the rack and if I can, what else do I need to loosen so I can raise the engine enough? I plan on raising the engine with chains to the two engine mounts for that purpose and a tractor loader.
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Mine: 4-940s running, 2-740 and 1-940 parts cars, and 3 1959 John Deere 630s (1 parts), dtr1:3-940s, dtr2=1-940

I've replaced oil pans (without dropping the cross-member) on two 940s a '92 and a '93.

For details (and tips from others) put lucid: 940 oil pan in the search box at the top-right corner above.


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Bruce Young, '93 940-NA (current), 240s (one V8), 140s, 122s, since '63.

https://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1447207/940/960/980/V90/S90/two_940s_bad_pans.html

Great pics and amazingly helpful tips here. I saw them for the first time today, five years later. Must not have been paying attention back then...

Nice work Bruce!
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Art Benstein near Baltimore

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Guess my old Mac Mini is ready for scrapping. Must get Dan to find a replacement.

If you can somehow copy them here, feel free my friend.

Bruce

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Bruce Young, '93 940-NA (current), 240s (one V8), 140s, 122s, since '63.

Probably nothing at all to blame on your computer. I did not re-post the pics -- there were many -- so I just included the URL to the post you made 5 years ago.

Here I have copied what was in that post. The images are hosted on Photobucket, and I have heard rumors of that site being blocked by some proxy servers (i.e. at work) but nothing that should affect your connection as I know it.

The following courtesy lucid on brickboard.com

The foregoing courtesy lucid on brickboard.com

I'm still waiting for a pan gasket. I'll update progress when I get the job done. Thanks to all so far.
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Mine: 4-940s running, 2-740 and 1-940 parts cars, and 3 1959 John Deere 630s (1 parts), dtr1:3-940s, dtr2=1-940

I received the one piece pan gasket and put it in.

I had to lift the engine 9 inches above the motor mounts to remove the old pan by twisting it 90 degrees counter clockwise (looking at it from the bottom). The power steering hose was quite tight but I don't think it was hurt.

I removed the throttle cable, radiator hoses, cruise control line to pump, fuel line to rail (pressure line), and bolt from the bracket around the main electrical bundle to the oil breather. The other lines and cables were long enough to go the 9 inches.

The old pan is paper thin in places, I'm glad I changed it. The old gasket was a 3-piece gasket. So, was the 3-piece gasket used when the engine was made or it strictly a replacement gasket??? I'm wondering if someone has had the pan off before me??? The odometer is at 193K miles. I know the transmission has been out since there is electrical tape around the solenoid wire.

Thanks to Art Benstein, Lucid, and all the others who responded.
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Mine: 4-940s running, 2-740 and 1-940 parts cars, and 3 1959 John Deere 630s (1 parts), dtr1:3-940s, dtr2=1-940

you should be able to loosen the nuts on the motor mounts from the crossmember and lift the engine enough to get the pan off the oil pump without having to do much else in the way of removal.

See FAQ on oil pump section which covers access to the pan:
https://www.brickboard.com/FAQ/700-900/EngineLubrication.htm#OilPumpWearandReplacement