Mike, the two bolts from the inside of the pan that secure the bottom of the timing cover are held in place with a sort of French lock tab plate. So if you used the plate, its unlikely that the bolts have come loose and are now leaking. And its not common at all for oil, that much oil anyhow, to be wicking the threads.

You may have had a gasket failure, or a seal failure. The thing is, to actually access these two bolts, you have to pull the pan. To get to the thread part of the bolts at the outside of the timing cover, to goop on rtv, you have to pull the harmonic balancer. So you have sort of chicken and egg issue. Is it the bolts or is it a seal or gasket. Me, I am not totally sold that its those little bolts that are leaking, unless you think you put them in loose or with out the locking tab and they got loose.


Mike