[85RedCarrera]

So, I put my 3.2 case back together using (red) Viton o-rings on the through bolts…

The side of the case where the head of the through bolts goes, does not have chamfered holes. The other side of the case where the nuts go has chamfered holes.

I installed the through bolts very carefully. The o-rings were lubed with Dow 55 and a thin piece of vinyl was wrapped around each threaded end when the o-rings were slipped over the bolts, so they wouldn’t get damaged.

The bolts were kept stable and did not rotate while being tightened & torqued.

After they were all torqued down, I can see a faint amount of flattened red o-ring barely emanating around the perimeter of at least half of the chamfered washers, where the o-ring is smashed between the unchamfered hole in the case and the chamfered washer….

I am concerned about this, but perhaps this is a normal deformation of the o-ring on this side of the bolt? Hard to believe, as I have never in my life installed an o-ring that was supposed to flatten out squeeze all the way to the edge of the washer.

Is this normal??