Greetings everyone - I purchased a Fel-Pro oil pan gasket that has been shipped to Real Gasket TN.  They are going to use it as a pattern to make the die for producing the new silicone gasket. All thoughts and comments welcome. 

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I would be interested in purchasing two oil pan gaskets.

Daniel Jessup

Lancaster, California

aka "The Hot Rod Reverend"
check out the 1955 Ford Fairlane build at www.hotrodreverend.com

Dan, at this point it's still in the planning stage. I will try to reach out to the folks at Real Gasket TN and make sure this is going to move forward.  One very good thing is Ted offered his valuable time to evaluate one of the silicone gaskets and I will install another one on my 64 truck then go from there. I'll do my best to ro report to the forum all progress, good or otherwise, as it becomes available. 

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try my kit, plate is for the rear of the pan, gasket is thicker than best by double.kit is 100 us including frt to us. have 2 left and do not intend to make more cliff at ct1940@shaw.ca

Ah-ha!  Thanks for the heads up and memory jogger.  I totally forgot about the Y-block silicone gasket as life got in the way of things with me this summer. I'll try contacting the folks at Real Gasket TN next week to find out if they are still willing to produce a silicone gasket for our engines. 

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the oil seal retainer is a rough area as ted said.i always put some gook os some kind here before installing the pan.to get a leak here the first think your going to think is rear seal.

Received word today a silicone gasket prototype has been produced. They need an evaluation as to form, fit etc. before production.  Ted, would you have time to evaluate this gasket? I could send it to you after the Thanksgiving holiday.  Your valuable input would be very much appreciated. Thanks, JEFF........



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If all I need to do is examine the gasket for a non-installed evaluation, I can do that.  That’s the easy part.  Actually testing the fit of that gasket on an engine and then running that engine in a variety of conditions would be the more difficult part.  While I can do that on the dyno mule, it would take some time to determine if and when a failure point occurs.  The dyno mule is scheduled to go back on the dyno late this year for some testing of parts in early January.  That would be an opportune time to also run that gasket on the 312 dyno mule.
 
A more suitable test would be for someone to actually put it on their daily driver Y for a period of time.  That daily driver ideally needs to be one that does not have any oil leaks before installing the gasket just to ensure that any leaks that show up during the test were not because of a pre-existing problem.

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

Thanks Ted for your offer and time. I agree a wet run on the dyno would be a better test than a visual and would be worth the wait.  Winter is around the corner in Michigan so by the time I can install it on my truck I'm afraid there won't be much apportunity to put on miles.  I have confidence this Si gasket should be a good thing....

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