Experience is a great teacher- - - - -bad experiences make the lesson stick that much tighter. Do you honestly think that more than a few of us (over the past 50-something years like me) haven't tried using gasket goop improperly? P.T. Barnum appears to be working for Permatex these days.
Jerry
Pulling rank is boorish and your first response was the last thing I was going to do. The gasket wasn’t short to begin with.
Thanks anyway