Oil Pan Gasket Question

[SteveG22]

I'm about to change the oil pan gasket (2001 PT)... the old factory gasket didn't use any RTV to seal it.

It was probably easier in a Factory setting to get a good seal without RTV when the engine was out of the car... but laying on the ground under the car trying to reattach the pan is a little tougher.

If you have done this job... did you leave the pan/gasket "dry" or RTV the whole thing or just "tack" the corners?

Any Dealer Mechanics out there? What is your SOP?

Appreciate any help.

[PT_Preacher]

Dont mean to hijack, but I'm tackling this one this weekend. Is the gasket an actual rubberized gasket, or would gorilla glue do the trick (I have completely rebuilt a vw engine using nothing but gorilla.glue and several carbs). Has anyone tries this?

[cruserdad1976]

i use indian head shelack kind of the same thing let it get tacky and it will hold really good

[UptownSport]

Gosh-

I assume this is a rubberized steel core gasket-
Shouldn't need anything

But DO check FSM

[Busted_PT]

Originally Posted by SteveG22

I'm about to change the oil pan gasket (2001 PT)... the old factory gasket didn't use any RTV to seal it.

It was probably easier in a Factory setting to get a good seal without RTV when the engine was out of the car... but laying on the ground under the car trying to reattach the pan is a little tougher.

If you have done this job... did you leave the pan/gasket "dry" or RTV the whole thing or just "tack" the corners?

Any Dealer Mechanics out there? What is your SOP?

Appreciate any help.

Never use rtv with a gasket. The Indian head works good.