My only concern with the sealant idea instead of the o-ring plan is

that if you get any of the sealant to squeeze out on the
inside of the assembly and it later breaks off where will
it go? If the filter catches it all well and good if it goes
downstream into the engine the results may be more ...well
interesting is perhaps one way of putting it :-)

Bryan in

Princeton B.C.

Very good point. If you do this as I plan to do, you can look down
to where the goo would squeeze out and clean it up before you proceed
to put your fittings into the relocation plate. At least you can with my adapter plate.

Brian Trubee

      As long as you can get the area good and clean as even a thin 
layer of sealant can peal off and ball up in an oil
passage.  With good clean up I would have no objection 
although IMHO  the o-ring set up is the best.  Have you checked around
for a small machine shop that might make you a plate with 
the o-ring grooves or even cut the grooves in your plate for you?
Are there enough people on the list who need one of these 
plates that someone could get jigged up to make a bunch?  I only have
an old horizontal mill so o-ring grooves are hard unless I 
can turn the piece in a lathe but seems to me that there are a
number of people with vertical mills that could probably do this??    
Bryan in Princeton  B.C.

 
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