Originally Posted by Cab_Burge
Did you assemble the motor? If so did you use a windage tray along with two of those gasket? If so did you install the gaskets dry or use gasket sealer between the gaskets and the windage tray and block? If not maybe you should.
Leaking between the gasket and block and oil pan are usually caused by over tightening the fasteners squeezing and crimping the gasket around the fasteners instead of having equal pressure on the gasket the entire length of the oil pan and timing cover hence Robert suggestion on the tightening sequence work scopeshruggy
BTW, the Fel Pro steel lined Teflon BB and hemi oil pan gaskets work great out of the packages with no sealer needed up


I didn't assemble the motor; I bought it as a crate. It has a windage tray and uses two separate gaskets. They did use gasket sealer on the gaskets. Thanks for the heads up about the oil pan braces. Every motor that I've seen with cork gaskets always seem to have issues with the oil seeping through. I'm changing the rear main seal as well, so I'm just trying to find a leak proof setup as I really don't want to have to go through this again.

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