[30Tudor]

I just wanted to update this post that I created earlier this year.

I installed the pan gasket earlier this summer using grease to hold it in place during the installation - which worked really well. I used a liberal amount of "right stuff" gasket sealer in the front and rear where the pan gasket intercepts the rear main gasket and the front rope seal. I also used allignment pins in the two front and two rear pan bolt holes which stopped the gasket from moving around when I pushed the pan up.

The other thing I did was to put gasket sealer on all the pan bolts that go through into the crankcase. In hindsight I think this issue was causing my original leaking as the repo pan bolt threads likely were different than the female threads in the block. This cleared up the majority of the drips. I am down to the occaisonal drip or two ending up at the drainage plug - but fortunately nothing out of the cotter pin hole in the flywheel housing.

Thanks for all your help and advice.