Questions on leaking front oil pan gasket

[Speedie13]

Well I JUST replaced my oil pan gaskets on my 95 and now the front gasket has started to leak. It looks to me like there is still a gap between the gasket and the end of the pan, but I think its supposed to be that way. My question is did you guys use RTV or other sealants on the end to seal it up better or did I just install the gasket wrong? This was my first time doing the gaskets on it so Im hoping I did it all right but I have no frame of reference. I did end up having to put RTV on the ends of the rear gasket and hold it up for 10 minutes until it seated enough to stay where it was supposed to so maybe I just didnt do things right. Any advice/help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance

 

[SuperHO]

I, without fail, run a bead of RTV around the gasket that I'm redoing. I squirted some on my oil pan when I did my rod bearings, and I've not had a problem with leakage yet (cept from my rear main, but that's something else altogether). I swear by that stuff...

 

[Speedie13]

Thanks for the advice

I re-installed the pan today and am letting it sit over night without any oil in it. I will add oil and fire it up tomorrow. I did a solid bead of RTV pretty much all the way around the pan so Im hoping it fixed the problem, because I dont want to have to drop the pan again for a long time....well until i do the rear main as well lol.....eek!

 

[CerberuS]

http://home.earthlink.net/~rcm_auto.../sitebuilderpictures/sho3.0lowergasketset.jpg

upper right , is whats your supposed to use.

huge amount of rtv can do the trick too

 

[mosho93]

I put rtv on the gasket when i changed it on your 93 chris. I hope its not leaking.

 

[Speedie13]

I put rtv on the gasket when i changed it on your 93 chris. I hope its not leaking.

Nope, the 93 is clean

Ive got a fuel pump ordered for it as well, should be here by the end of the week. Cant wait haha.

http://home.earthlink.net/~rcm_auto.../sitebuilderpictures/sho3.0lowergasketset.jpg

upper right , is whats your supposed to use.

huge amount of rtv can do the trick too

Yeah I had the gaskets in the picture installed but for some reason at the very bottom of the front one oil was seaping out and running down that side of my pan. I ran rtv around the outer edge on the outside of the gasket, right behind the crank pulley, to stop that area from leaking this time around.

 

[Paul]

A oil pan gasket can be done with a high rate of success by a rookie if its cleaned properly.. The rear seal 99% of the time is a none issue. The front crank seal is almost always a leaker. This can be determined by a drop of oil collecting at the bottom of the lower timing cover. If there's a drop hanging there...the front crank seal is bad. To change the front crank seal is far more involved to replace than the oil pan gasket. Although to replace the rear seal is makes the front seal seem like amature hour.

 

[Paul]

A oil pan gasket can be done with a high rate of success by a rookie if its cleaned properly.. The rear seal 99% of the time is a none issue. The front crank seal is almost always a leaker on a older one.(there all old nowadays) This can be determined by a drop of oil collecting at the bottom of the lower timing cover. If there's a drop hanging there...the front crank seal is bad. To change the front crank seal it is far more involved to replace than the oil pan gasket. Although to replace the rear crank seal is makes the front seal seem like amature hour.

I failed to mention that if a drop is hang off the lower cover its entirly possible a cam seal is running down there.