I have a 1948 F3 with the 239 V8. I went to add oil for the first time in 12 years and the oil is leaking from the bolts on the oil pan clean out. I put the gasket on the outside of the oilpan cleanout plate but now I'm thinking it goes on the inside of the oilpan, under the ring of bolts? I don't have a diagram showing where it goes. Any help is appreciated.

 

Read all about it here: https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...d-packing.html

PS you might want to change oil more often!

 

Thanks Ross, yeah, 12 years or 100,000 miles. It sounds like this has been a problem right along. You can see that the oil from inside the pan can follow the bolts from inside to outside, the gasket does nothing for this. But the thread does not say where the gasket goes. If there was a gasket on the inside of the pan, (Slides over bolt ring) it would stop the oil from getting to the bolts maybe- I'm not sure. Maybe there should be 2 gaskets, inside and outside the pan. Thanks again Ross.

 

Perhaps some sealer on the bolts is in order.

 

I would have sworn the thread concluded gaskets on both sides, plus Right Stuff.

 

The last time I removed mine, I said to hell with the gasket and put a continuous ring of permatex around it going both inside and outside of each stud. It worked much better than the gasket.

 

I will try 2 gaskets with Right stuff on the threads as Ross suggested. Thanks everyone for the responses.

 

from the land of the straight six, I will say this - permatex, permatex, permatex... I did double gaskets (cut myself from a $10 roll-o-gasket instead of two $9 special order gaskets with $4 shipping). it leaked just a tiny bit, so I permatexed it and nary a leak from there at all.
When I tore mine apart it had gaskets on both sides so I put it back the same way - gaskets on both sides.

 

Same here. I cut my own gaskets too and doubled them up. It still leaked until I added Permatex.