[V8] Oil pan gasket

[daves745t at optonline.net]

When I did mine, I did not 'wet' it - I don't know 
for sure whether you are supposed to or 
not, but I haven't had any leaks.

I think one of the most important things
is making sure ALL remnants of the
OLD gasket are GONE! I used a utility
knife blade along the edge and then degreaser 
and really cleaned the whole pan.

I found getting the gasket back into the
proper position without it moving as 
you're tightening the first of the 599
bolts to be a big PITA.

Otherwise very straight forward, but some 
bolts are in awkward locations, will
just take some tweaking to get them
torqued down.


> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:51:05 -0700
> From: Jeremy Ward <jward.v8 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [V8] Oil pan gasket - Tips?
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> OK, there is an oil leak near the oil filter and that corner of 
> the oil sump 
> pan looked pretty wet, so I bought a new OEM paper gasket (~$30).
> Any tips for installing it? Do I need to 'wet' it with anything? 
> Fresh oil? 
> I assume you want to torque all 599 bolts in a cross pattern, eh?
> The other source of the leak could be the oil filter itself. 
> Remember when 
> I 'double gasketed' the last one? I suppose I could have buggered 
> up that 
> oil filter gasket and it never made a good seal... I will chance 
> the oil at 
> the same time and hopefully between the 2 new bits, no more oil 
> leaks ;-)
> I also picked up an RPM sensor for a 5ktq for under $100 (thanks 
> for the 
> tip Tony!); hopefully no more hot start problems either.
> TIA for the answer to the gasket question.
> Cheers,
> - Jeremy
>