You believe what you want .... I RTVed the gasket ON TO the pan and then lightly oiled the opposite face.

And I have been doing this LONGER than 40 years !!

The cork gaskets barely stop leaks when new. They will never come off and go back on and still seal. No way.

Doc, take your oldtimers medicine and join the modern world. There is no way in hell a cork gasket will last 30 years being used over and over again. You got to come up with a better story than that.

Grumpy ....just say what the cost diff is ....and I just MIGHT join that "modern-world"(of expensive gaskets) .

I paid $22 for the new gasket. Not really sure I needed it. Once it was all said and done, my leaks were coming from multiple other places. I guess it would have saved me replacing the cork style 3 times.

Moral of the story, if you think it's the pan seal, look elsewhere too.

About $15 difference for a gasket that will seal over and over again without the need for the expense of a tube of sealer even if the pan isn't perfectly straight.

I sealed a TH350 with a flexible rubber gasket and GE Silicone 1 door and window sealer from Home Depot.

My experience with cork is that oil eventually soaks into it and it weeps out the other side. I cut a leaking low mileage cork VC gasket in half and it was soaked with oil all the way to the middle.

The best thing about the reuseable gasket is you don't need to spend time scraping all that RTV off when you do change it.

I fought with a leaking differential cover, it's a major pain getting all that RTV off both surfaces.

Believe me I wanted to use a mopar style reusable gasket for the th350, but couldn't find any such animal. And, yes silicone is a hassle to remove.

These guys have it, wish I had found the Dana gasket before I changed it 3 times.

http://ratech.stores.yahoo.net/reaxhoga.html

OHCH! that hurt Doc

i did put a DECENT exhast on it,IMHO

i droped the rear dump log manny on the passide and use 2 center dumps and no heat flapper on the passide

with 2 nice head pipes mandrell bent 90* turns

cant get more = than that with mannys and is mucho more decent

gots the trendy mini alt and mini starter too

if you would like me to use something else..."all donations accepted"