99 3500 2 wheel drive with automatic trans.

Looks like I need to get to the tone ring.

Anyone done this without a vehicle lift?

I have an engine hoist and a bike jack (for the tranny)

Just looking for tips to save time and make it less of a pain.

 

I personally have not done that job, but read that you can lift the motor/trans by removing fan and valve cover then loosen motor mount bolts and lift motor so oil pan can be removed. Or either you have to remove the trans.

 

have a 99 2500 4x4 and did oil pan swap on my back in the garage loosen motor mounts upper fan shroud and lift with cherry picker just enough room before valve cover hit fire wall

 

You could also pull the tranny back, and you can slide the oil pan out the back if you remove the engine adapter.

 

I personally watched my dealer mechanic do this on my truck. Bear in mind it is a 4x4 but he did say it's the same on 2wd's also.

Remove the fan and shroud, pull the thru bolts on the engine mounts, put a jack on the harmonic balancer and jack the motor as high as needed to remove the pan. Before the pan will come out/off, reach in and remove the oil pump pickup bolts, the pan and the pick up come out together.

He replaced my pan gasket, start to finish in 35 minutes while I stood there the whole time. Granted he had a lift but instead of "jacking" anything up and down with a floor jack, he used the lift and a tall stand to lift the motor by dropping the whole truck.

A month later, I ended up doing the same thing in my shop here at home because the leaking pan gasket was actually a cracked oil pan. I did it with a floor jack, the truck sitting on the floor, start to finish in a little over an hour and a half.

Hope it helps

Jeff

 

What makes you think the crank tone wheel is fubarred??? Very unlikely.