Thanks for posting the info. I really appreciate it. I am going to start obtaining the parts to do the conversion. I appreciate the effort in trying to locate the article. Unless the gasket manufactures start making more of the neoprene rear seal, the rope may be it, and I have never been all that successful in using a rope real main seal and I am getting too old to keep crawling under the car to drop a pan and replace a seal, lol.