355 F355 2.7 oil tank removal

Simple question I’m hoping, can the oil tank be removed without taking the engine out?
The bottom bracket is broken and I have an oil leak from that area!
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Looking at photos from my major. It looks like it should be removeable without the engine coming out.

You'd have to
1. Remove all the bolts and hoses to the oil tank
2. Remove the fuel filter on the passenger side
3. Likely need to remove the passenger side air plenum

Then it looks like you'd be able to lean the top of the oil tank towards the center line of the car and pull it straight up and out.

 

The side oil hose outlet on the tank stops you from removing it. The said outlet just wont get past the chassis diagonal tube.

 

A Ferrari tech tells me it will come out no problem!!


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No problem he says lol!! Ok
I have been working on my 355 for 15 years, done everything to it from engine out to rebuilds.
Will some one who has actually done the oil tank removal please sound of and tell us how to do it?
The only thing that I have not tried was removing the RH plenum to try and get the room to get the tank out, but it's that oil take of against the tube that is the problem.
Any one actually done this?

 

It was easy, I’m new to the car and I’m no mechanic but I was told you can so I disconnected everything and pulled it out the top, here are the pictures, hope it helps.
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Well done, so how did you get the oil take of past the tube?
I guess not all 355s are the same. I cant do that with mine.

 

He's got an after market header which helps a lot. All he needed to do was disconnect remove the lid, removed the gas filter (if he had that in the way), removed all four oil hoses, removed the two mounting bolts, lever the tank toward the engine, and lift it out.

 

Yea its weird mate, I cant do it on mine. Strange.

 

It is strange, I followed the tube line when lifting it out and our cane out, I have a tubi manifold on, didn’t remove the engine lid or anything else, just undid all hoses and lifted out, my car is a 2.7 1995 rhd, as you’ve suggested there are differences with the 5.2’s.


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Not very much difference in that area other than some 95 have a fuel filter there. Otherwise, it's even emptier in that space. 4 lines, 2 bolts, a wire or two at the bottom, and out it comes.