And I find parts leaking all the time with those encapsulated gaskets under them because some fool over tightened the bolts to the point of deforming the Aluminum casting. Pull it off lay a straight edge on it and it will be warped so badly it might as well have been a stamped part.
When I am working on something that has a gasket between 2 flat mating surfaces, whenever possible I like to add a grove in the matting surface of the part that is replaceable or if possible make true o ring groves in them, use an o ring of the correct composition for where it is to be used and the likelihood the [art will ever develop a leak is greatly diminished
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