There is a gasket between the horizontal baffle and the deep sump spacer, but that horizontal baffle has sealant gluing it to the engine (that's how I installed mine, I wish I had put the gasket as the final piece between the whole assembly and the engine, but it didn't work that way.) I think you will have to try and get a wedge in between and pry off that flat plate. I would expect that the pan bottom and spacer would come off once you took the bolts out. Maybe it was installed using sealant between all pieces?
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