Transmission pan gasket effective?

You can also make some load distributors similar to those found on valve covers for each bolt or pair of bolts. That would certainly help distribute the load. Of course I would straighten the holes out as outlined above first.
YES! That was where I saw those! I was trying to remember what pan had them but it is valve covers. I think flattening the holes back and these combined would be perfect. The pan is the least of all the leaks I had. The worse was the shifter seal and then the neutral safety switch which I had swapped for another defective one last fall (chinese junk! first the virus, then these switches).