How To Fix A Leaking Oil Pan: Chevrolet Cruze 1.8L [1st Gen 2011-2016]

🔴In this video I will show you the procedure fix your leaking oil pan on your 2011-2016 Chevrolet Cruze. This is a harder repair than most regular oil pans. This repair will take you about 4 hours to complete.
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[@Larrythebassman]

Very good camera work the lighting is superb. Excellent video.

[@hunterbiden7391]

Great video! Thank you!

[@albertoflores9056]

Thank you so much. From Antofagasta (Chile)

[@markgrovenor389]

Thanks for posting this, it is a very valuable resource before carrying out the task. It appears there is no oil pickup that sits in the sump! I can see the channel where the oil must travel via a oil pump suction (self-priming??). My nephew's Cruze 1.8l appears to have been overheated at some stage and the oil cooler suffered a leak which let water into the oil. The head was gummed up with crusty carbon and whilst I vacuumed most of it out, some has dropped down the drain ports towards the sump. The plan is to remove the sump and hopefully remove any remain sediment.

[@josuegouveia5302]

Foi o melhor vídeo. Obrigado

[@mleindek]

What a real PITA this car is

[@bruhyoubogus36]

Walmart stripped my bolt lol very well done video

[@imawesomekbye]

1 year later…. I am here because of the same issue…

[@wishniwasfishn813]

Me too! 😂

[@bobdelabourer1307]

Hi great video. I did my oil pan a week ago. I am having an oil pump cavitation on cold startup about 15 hours of the car sitting unused. I feel rhat the oil in rhe pump snd tube is falling back into the pan. I am sure i put silicon around that oil duct opening on the pan. Its a new oil pump. No leaks

[@brandonpetrilla1731]

Looks like the oil leak is higher, Check valve cover gasket and oil cooler behind exhaust manifold, Also the oil pressure switches on these engines are known to leak

[@adamb5142]

Would you know if this would work for the astra j 1.6 2012 version? because its basically the same engine.

[@saadmohammed9560]

this is wrong way putting silicon... i do same way and the oil pump does not reach to the oil must put little silicon and put inside corner tube of oil pump

[@thiaggolandetta3667]

What's up friend, can you tell me what brand of silicone you used to form the crankcase gasket? Please thanks. Greetings. I follow your master channel.

[@OneTrickTech]

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[@Vision20247]

It’s great you did this video as I’m going to clean my Insignia sump which is the same engine. Personally, I’d say you made a couple of missteps by not removing the flitch side of the engine mount in the first place, plus there was no need for the jack on the gearbox side as you could have jacked it carefully by the AC pump bracket/area. You also took some risk going straight for the catalyst/down pipe bolts with an impact wrench as opposed to using a ratchet to ‘feel’ the resistance of any studs still in the cat. All good though and great camera work. Thanks for the share

[@sayidhosein8264]

Does the oil pick up tube inside the pan have a screen or filter that needs to be cleaned?

[@OneTrickTech]

yes there's a small screen on the edge of the pan you can clean it if there's some debris

[@MrGraveSlice]

The sheer fact that just a leaking oil pan requires 20+ bolts, 2 brace removals, fender removals, a wheel removal, jacking up the engine, and a whole bunch of other headaches just shows you why most mechanics hate working on this car why Chevy ditched it

[@OneTrickTech]

You're right! I still cant believe how labor intense it was just for a 4 cylinder. Just a horrible design.

[@markgrovenor389]

I am actually surprised the sump can be removed without lifting the engine out of the car!

[@robertpriddy1808]

How come you loosened up the 3 engine mount bolts closest to the engine ? I noticed after you loosened up the 3 bolts the engine dropped a little. I would have loosened up the other 3 bolts on the other side of the mount or taken them off so the engine won't drop down and also the mount bracket where you loosened the bolts at it's under the other mount bracket so how will you raise the engine up if the lip over laps the lip on bracket where you loosened the nuts ?

[@OneTrickTech]

I use a pry bar to raise the engine from the mount and that gave me enough room to clear the pressure valve

[@diresa22]

Do you let the sealant dry before putting the pan together or do you put it together while the sealant is wet?

[@OneTrickTech]

Put it together while the sealant is wet. Ideally within 10 minutes of putting the sealant.

[@diresa22]

@@OneTrickTech awesome. Thanks. You saved my butt (Chevy sonic 2016).

[@hectorvaldo5739]

Mal puesta de silicon falto donde va el ducto de la bomba

[@stevegooch2356]

What is the little white "plug" (or something) right above his hand at the corner?

[@OneTrickTech]

where in the video?

[@stevegooch2356]

@@OneTrickTech - Sorry @ the 12:34 mark. Upper left side on that frame.

[@OneTrickTech]

@@stevegooch2356 good question. I have no idea whats it for. it some plastic plug. I moved it a few times during the repair but dont know whats it for

[@crowsnips6664]

@@OneTrickTech did anyone find out about the plug cause i need one and i cant find anything on it

[@underalions2023]

What did you use to clean the inside of the oil pan

[@OneTrickTech]

brake cleaner

[@underalions2023]

@@OneTrickTech brake cleaner. That's what I started using, I just seen a video by a English bloke . He used a paint brush and petrol... Did you use brake cleaner to clean the bottom of the engine

[@OneTrickTech]

@@underalions2023 yes you can use a brush or paper towels to clean some of the sludge off the bottom of the oil pan. then finish it off with brake cleaner.

[@Endthenonsense]

Im thinking of using flexseal😂

[@bruhyoubogus36]

Having a real hard time putting in the oil pan atm 😅

[@OneTrickTech]

whats the issues I can give you pointers

[@bruhyoubogus36]

@@OneTrickTech So I ended up getting the pan off and putting the new one on but after putting oil in it it says oil pressure low while I run the car, I looked it up and It said the 1.8 takes 3.9 liters and 4.8 us quarts is that correct?

[@OneTrickTech]

yea thats right

[@bruhyoubogus36]

@@OneTrickTech yeah then I'm not sure why its saying oil pressure low

[@OneTrickTech]

@@bruhyoubogus36 could be the sensor but there a pain to get to

[@3stargarage]

Oil pump sucking tube not put sealicon you

[@user-ug9nn]

just the oil leak is not from the oil pan ... it is from the marvelous engineering of the front camshaft cap where the variable timing oil channels sits and leak outside as no gasket is there, just an improvised one....

[@seanhubbert9929]

So User 2891 it seems almost pointless for me to reseal the oil pan if it’s leaking from the camshaft cap. I’m having the same issue I just replaced both VVT Solenoids intake and exhaust. Also Did Oil and filter Change noticed it leaking. Did u figure out a solution for this? Anything would help thanks.

[@user-ug9nn]

@@seanhubbert9929 you have to manually made some channels for sealant and oil draining, it is a modification to the cylinder had and front camshaft cap

[@dar1020]

I have the sump gasket getting slightly wet near the crankshaft area and leaking slightly on the gearbox side too...what has to do the top of the engine with the bottom part of the engine therefore the sump gasket leaking? The fault you are describing is well known as the oil cooler leaking and many other but has nothing to do with this video. Like with other parts new improved version had come out hence since the z18xer engine was born on 2005 the problem among others was solved by gm with improved version or corrections (see camshaft half-moons breaking - m32 gearbox - ecu remapping - z18xer intake manifold... etc) 😉

[@terrytorres7075]

So, there is actually no gasket on the oil pan, just sealant?

[@OneTrickTech]

Exactly. No gasket at all, just sealant.

[@markjones8632]

What did you do swallow some criptonite and just rip off the oil pan bots and all for the two rcessed bolts ???????

[@davidhumiston6500]

And it looks like it's from back east so it must be a rust bucket lots of WD-40

[@BE-Ballistic]

How do you say this is harder!? U clearly dont do oil pan leak repairs much. This is EASY. To fix this kinda leak for a honda. Guess wat. ENGINE COMES OUT. Most cars fwd require engine to be removed. Nissans. Yotas. Hondas. Fords. Jeeps. Vw. If u say the LOWER PAN COVER WITH A DRAIN BOLD. THATS NOT THE PAN. But good how to. Dont lie to people of difficulty this is by far THE EASY ONE TO FIX. SHESH MAN

[@bobdelabourer1307]

I agree, this is easy peasy. I just did mines. This car is so easy to work on. It's built like a Lego set 😅