Cannot seem to seal an oil pan

[Blake442]

Oil pan gasket, tried fel pro Cork, nada.....Due to mounting surfaces for the bolts were higher that the mounting surface of the pan. So, I corrected it with some delicate pursuasion. The pan is straight and all bol hole areas are now below the seating surface of the pan...

I'm not sure if I'm following your wording here correctly...
There is a small peak/ridge that runs along the center of the gasket surface of the pan inbetween each bolt.
Are you saying this is what you hammered out?

I laid a heavy bead of RTV around the entire pan as well as all corners along the caps, placed the gasket on the pan, and bolted it to the block.
I only tightened the bolts as hard as I could turn the extension by hand (no ratchet), let it sit for about 24 hours and then went around and snugged it up. Haven't run it yet, but I hope it stays dry...

 

[tobyp]

Oil pan gasket, tried fel pro Cork, nada.....Due to mounting surfaces for the bolts were higher that the mounting surface of the pan. So, I corrected it with some delicate pursuasion. The pan is straight and all bol hole areas are now below the seating surface of the pan...

I'm not sure if I'm following your wording here correctly...
There is a small peak/ridge that runs along the center of the gasket surface of the pan inbetween each bolt.
Are you saying this is what you hammered out?

I laid a heavy bead of RTV around the entire pan as well as all corners along the caps, placed the gasket on the pan, and bolted it to the block.
I only tightened the bolts as hard as I could turn the extension by hand (no ratchet), let it sit for about 24 hours and then went around and snugged it up. Haven't run it yet, but I hope it stays dry...

No, I know what you mean by the ridge. I left that alone. If you held the pan in your hands and looked at the bolt holes the bolt hole seating surface was waised up from over torque or use i guess. I made sure these holes were pushed down like the ridges are.

 

[Blake442]

Oh, I gotcha... I need to go to bed... :lol:

 

[othtim]

I torqued my pan by hand as well. It was a mistake - next time I'm going to use lock washers. The bolts kept threading themselves out >_<

 

[tobyp]

Still leaks, The hell with it, new old stock pan coming soon.

 

[All Motor Boys]

get the surface clean and dry use a gast and the right stuff sealer Black let it cset over night may use a red scotch bright to scuff the surface,, everybody on v8 buick told me not to do it but i have no leaks on my 455 buick now..