There's a guy named Luke. Thunderhead 289 here on TH-cam. He swears by clean axle grease on both sides of a gasket. A very thin film. It's tacky enough to hold the gasket in place. Went the eventual removal take place in the future. No scraping required. I myself have yet to try this method. The up side is,I'm guessing. No bits of sealant collecting where they shouldn't.
I'm with standardstyle on this. What concerns me about this housing design, is that bypass port is outside of the torque points that bolt the housing down. Definitely check the housing for flatness with the bypass fitting in place. That fitting could be distorting the mating surface of the housing.
In my experience when parts like that leak it's either because the gasket is lower quality then what was used by the factory or it's because one or both of the mating surfaces are no longer flat. Sometimes you can help it out by running on some fine sandpaper on a flat surface and just giving it a very light sand. I'm sure Eric knows all that and has his own way of doing things though
Honda Bond!!! Hell yeah
There's a guy named Luke. Thunderhead 289 here on TH-cam. He swears by clean axle grease on both sides of a gasket. A very thin film. It's tacky enough to hold the gasket in place. Went the eventual removal take place in the future. No scraping required. I myself have yet to try this method. The up side is,I'm guessing. No bits of sealant collecting where they shouldn't.
Eric check if the pht metal Pipe is correctly fixed with the aluminium body. Maybe You don't see the leak in that side.
Put some Permatex shellac on the backside of the mating gasket. That will hold it in place and it will not leak. Guaranteed.
I'm with standardstyle on this. What concerns me about this housing design, is that bypass port is outside of the torque points that bolt the housing down. Definitely check the housing for flatness with the bypass fitting in place. That fitting could be distorting the mating surface of the housing.
In my experience when parts like that leak it's either because the gasket is lower quality then what was used by the factory or it's because one or both of the mating surfaces are no longer flat. Sometimes you can help it out by running on some fine sandpaper on a flat surface and just giving it a very light sand. I'm sure Eric knows all that and has his own way of doing things though
Make your own gasket. Unless the issue is the current gasket mates with the intake perfectly.
I think you put the thermostat on the wrong side of the gasket just saying
LAP THE MATING SURFACE you probably have a low spot