oil pan remove, do i have to lift the engine off the car?

hi, its 98 passat tdi, AHU engine, i need to reseal the oil pan gasket, do i need to lift the engine up to remove the oil pan?? seems like all the machanic think i do have to and its a big job to remove it, please help if u know how to do it. thanks

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Oh, who changes your oil? Ask them. They would know if anything crosses beneath the pan requiring the engine to be lifted.

i do it myself and i have the car for 3 months now, there is a things under the oil pan, its only 2" gap between them , so my machanic told me its not possible to slide it off , thanks

Yeah if you only have a 2" gap then you are screwed! Sorry. You could clean it up and try a silicone line around the outside to see if that works. I mean there isn't any pressure behind the oil there. What's leaking is the oil running back to the pan from the engine as well as the sloshing of the oil itself while driving. If you don't have or want to spend the money try that.

can you just re-torque the fasteners on the oilpan? maybe you will get lucky.

Or that! Actually, my car guy found that mine were loose a few years ago and did just that.

thanks guys for the input, i will try to re-tourqe it then if its not works i will clean it up and then reseal it they r actually very good idea. thanks guys.