one piece oil pan gasket question
im using a felpro one piece oil pan gasket on my new SBC engine. the pan just seems like it is not all the way down before i start to tighten it down for the first time and i dont like to tighten stuff or pull stuff down with a bolt if something is wrong... the oil pump is not in the way. maybe the gasket needs to be really crunched down with the bolts as part of the pan sealing to the block. could someone please explain to me if this is normal with this type of gasket. even the old pan and old gasket do the same thing, so that leads me to believed it is just a tightening thing that needs to be done thanks art