[norville]

Ok, long story short. I was able to drop the pan worhout raising the engine and slide it to the left, and pull out the broken dipstick tube.

However, there was another chunk of tube in the hole, so I had to drop the pan completely. After hours of fighting it. My advice going forward would be to jack up the engine by the oil pan. Pull the motor mount bolts and drop the mounts onto small pieces of 2x4 at the mounts. I was able to pull the whole stock truck pan out that way .

I have to drill out the piece left in the block, I will replace this stock truck pan with a knock off holly 302-2 pan since I'm this far in and I damaged the leaky oil pan seal anyway. .

It took me 3 hrs to figure out what could be done in 20 mins..