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I actually sent off my first oil sample to Blackstone on Saturday. I bought the prepaid 6 pack and I am planning to do them fairly regularly.
Timco from what I understand there is a 5 minute window with the Loctite 5900, the recommendation is to do plenty of test fittings before doing the real one.
I bought 3 longer bolts at Lowe's this morning and had them cut the heads off using their chain cutter. I will thread these in and use them as a guide.
For removing, I left two of the bolts on loosely so the pan wouldn't fall. On the driver side there are two prying bosses (shown in the pelican article), I pried from there and then hit the side of the cover with a rubber mallet and it popped loose. Then I had to remove the last two loose bolts and guide it down.
Things to do... I guess one could order a new oil pickup o-ring/ refresh whatever seals are in there. But I have never seen that guidance. (Tbh I don't want to mess around in there too much) The other thing would be (if you were thinking of track days) to put in an improved x51 style baffle and/or deep sump kit. Ln engineering, turret, ebs etc sell them.
While you are down there you could optionally refresh the spring/piston thing that insite documented in his thread, search for posts by insite with the keywords oil pressure. It is easy to do and fairly cheap, he swears by it, I just did it and it was quick and easy.
I wish I could quote the authors of the guidance above but I can't on my mobile device. Thanks to Jake, thstone, san rensho, insite, byprodriver, trk and I am most likely leaving some out, my apologies.
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