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Originally Posted by otter
I haven't had time to pull my own oil pan yet but something that's stood out to me as I see everyone's pictures - there appears to be very little surface area on the engine side of the mating surface. I've never worked on a Subaru engine but for other engines I've pulled pans on there would usually be about 3/4" of mating surface but some of these pictures look like they're only 1/2", if not less. I could be wrong though since it can be hard to tell scale in pictures without a banana. That narrow surface would make it super easy to over-apply.
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When I've seen engine manufacturing lines on Youtube the RTV is applied perfectly/precisely, by robotics. I don't know how Subaru tackle this but I'd be surprised if it were done manually.