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Originally Posted by bbnks2
What bolts are you referring to? Oil pan, windage tray, and plenty of other bolts in the engine are aluminum stretch bolts. You give the oil pan bolts 90* stretch past the initial seating torque. They will never produce the same clamping force if you re-use them. It can be done, but do you really want to break bolts and/or have to deal with a leaky oil pan gasket to save $20?
Both of those pans are similar enough that I wouldn't think there would be much if any difference in terms of keeping oil around the pickup lol
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IMO i believe if you are comfortable with the bolts then by all means use them. Upon reading i see that the car has had a bit of damage throughout its travels underneath. So maybe it would be a good idea to replace them. All of this is based upon different scenarios and situations.