Thread: gasket and sealer questions

"It's my first time", as a buddy and I like to say.

FSM says dry install on those and I have used the plastic gaskets in teh past. No worries about sealing as long as the surface is clean and you torque things properly.

Well, FelPro also says to install their "new and revised" pan gasket dry, no RTV required.

I feel like doing the job once, and only once, so every pan gasket on a W-Body I do gets RTV on both sides. What they say is only a suggestion...

~F~

Originally Posted by GR8racingfool

Well, FelPro also says to install their "new and revised" pan gasket dry, no RTV required.

I feel like doing the job once, and only once, so every pan gasket on a W-Body I do gets RTV on both sides. What they say is only a suggestion...

~F~

If you are doing a steel pan sure.. there's no other way. This is why I'm using engine sealant and an aluminum pan though.