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I think this was my problem. The last kit I pirchased had the tabs seperate from the main seal. Can't remember what company. I didn't cut them off though. I have the new main seal which are the brown seals in this pic. They are Fel-pro #40181. They came with no tabs on them and no tabs in the box.



In your case you will have to fill the grooves for
the wings with silicone or Right Stuff but leave a
small mound for a contact point.... the reason I
dont like to rotate the seal is the factory spent
MANY man hours to find a way to cut down the warranty
cost issues with the old style(no wings) and they
came up with the wings.... you never seen a factory
seal rotated..... again... JMO.... I had to replace
the pan on my Jeep(rusted out) and I had to cut the
wings off due to the seal was made backwards and on
a 4.0 engine the wings are different sizes... with
silicone at the joints its bone dry and thats been
over a year and half now