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Standing Proud on a Tractor Engine

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Working on my '60 tractor engine, installed the front sealing block (T gaskets were fun). Got it all installed. Front plate is next. Put the gasket on for fit and discovered that the front sealing block was (as the Brit's put it) standing proud of the front of the block by about 1/32". Can't be a good thing, I figure. The sealing block is in correctly, tough to put in wrong. Do I need to get it milled down so that it is flush with the block? Came this way from the factory, but I have seen other factory mess ups so it could be a factory defect. Seems to me that if I don't do something about it I'm just asking for a heap of oil leak problems. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif
As always any thoughts any of might have would be appreciated.
Thanks, Tinkerman
 
From what I remember of rebuilding my engine fifteen years ago the sealing block should be positioned so that it is completely flush with the front of the engine. I used a steel rule to make sure. There is a level of adjustment possible with it. I think I had to trim the end of the "T" shaped seals where they protruded. (Mind you, you are talking to the man who couldn't find one of the manifold nuts after the rebuild. Turned out it had dropped into cylinder no. 4 from the bulkhead when I replaced the head. I soon found out where it was when I started the engine!)
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