so you finally got it off bigwig

 

haha, reminded me of when i had trouble taking my pan off. the "ooze" is silicone gasket maker and it's there for a purpose. the right way to take the pan out is to use a pry bar, NOT the kind you use to take out nails, but the kind that you find next to the putty knives at Home Depot. Remember to scrape off the old silicone and apply a new bead.


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you get the idea, you just tap the flat end in between the pan and the block and it'll come off with just a little tug, comes on in less than 2 min.

 

sounds to me like its time for a sexy new aluminum pan

 

The pan is fine, i just need a new gasket. does everyone put that crapy ooze stuff back on? it seems like it will seal fine.

 

Mine was the same way...it took me for f'n ever.....but i just got a big screw driver and a sledge hammer and said f-it and pounded away..finally broke edge away enough to get screw driver in and pounded it out....finally pryed it off..but i experienced same problem as you did..just gota get rough with it..

 

 

the crappy ozz/gorilla snot is called hondabond. use black silicon sealer on both sides of the gasket and dont smooth it out. you wont have any leaks.

 

i dont know what the problem was but i got mine off easy as cake