Re: My th400 pan gasket leaks, how do I stop it?

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>> Install a aluminum pan.
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> Damn that's an expensive pan.
> I see that it comes with washers for the bolts, maybe I need that.
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>The washers for the bolts stop you from compressing the gasket too much. 
>The bolts stop on the washers. If this was my pan , Id make sure the
flange 
>was straight. Id give it a thorough cleaning. Not hillbilly clean. Clean 
>clean. Id get red high temp rtv. Coat both sides of the gasket and the
pan 
>. But more im****tantly Id RTV the bolts where they seat and part of the 
>threads before I screw them in. That way the holes in the gasket actually

>get filled with rtv and set up against the bolts. Get them in , torqued
and 
>walk away for a day. Then put the fluid back in. After that Id think leak

>elsewhere running down, or live with it.