Agree with that, replacing any of those gaskets is an easy inexpensive task Jim. I'd just take a fifteen minutes, pull it apart, clean it up real good and put in a new gasket using some Permatex #2. The only way you could have water leaking up thru the bolt is if the gasket is damaged as you already suspect.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL


Denny G
Sandwich, IL