and ill add, if your re using the steel oil pan, red rtv the block, then set the gasket in the rtv, then do the oil pan lip with rtv and set it on the gasket.

the front and rear covers use rtv on both sides of the gasket at the bottom inch and a 1/2 or so.


when using the rtv, all i used was a thin smear of rtv, maybe a mm thick or so. very little oozed out when i bolted the pan down.