Get some good tools and a good timing chain cover and lots of brake cleaner and form a gasket silicon (high temp is the best) . Buy new TC gasket including oil seal. Sea Rays suck as far as providing room to work on motor. But, I'd try loosening all pan bolts, especially near front of motor and see if you can flex pan enough to remove TC cover. Good luck.
^^^ Quickest way to absolutely guarantee you'll have more leaks after than before. Pull the engine and do it right!
In my 72 years on this planet, I have seen or done this application that has worked to patch the problem more than ONCE. If he pulls V8 pan, then the BEST, but this will get him by. Form a gasket made of special silicon has been used for decades. If I were to pull 40+ year old motor, I'd rebuild the motor.
Yes, I've seen this sort of dodgy workmanship many times before. It brings me to tears seeing some of the truly awful things people will do in the name of a 'quick fix'. DON'T DO IT! And to tank, please stop suggests way for people to do half-fast jobs. It's not what these forums are about. Do it properly, or don't do it at all (ie, give it to someone who will do it properly).
Practically and perfections do not always meet.
'Practicality' is not an excuse for doing a dodgy job. Not in my world....
By default, HE is asking for advice. So, you'd spend thousands of $$$ instead of < $200 job of replacing a harmonic balancer seal and a quart of Marvel Mystery oil to soften the rest of the motor's seals? Then, worse case scenario and it still leaks buckets, I agree, I'd pull motor. It's his money and time, not yours. Good luck! Pulling a v8 is not easy for the layman. Great for shops at 200 bucks an hour. Yes this maybe a simple fix and PATCH and you disagree. I've done this fix too many times over the decades.
Check if oil pan or timing cover has corrosion on it, if severe may need replacement
sorry for high jacking this thread but quick question. i have a 1978 engine can i use the one piece gasket on my engine or does it have to be the 4 piece.
If we knew what you had, we could let you know.
Suggest always starting your own thread. Hoewever yes, if you have an sbc, felpro makes a single gasket for both the 1-piece RMS and 2-piece RMS blocks
by the way its 3.0
