8BA Pan gasket install help needed

[Scott52]

Need help with pan gasket installation. My first Flathead but I have rebuilt other engines successfully. This 8BA reassembly was started over a year ago and sidelined when I had a rotator cuff reattachment surgery and rehab. I left it with the major assembly done except the pan and intake. Best Gasket set. The rear seal was trimmed with the supplied thickness gauge and the front, white rope type seal was not trimmed. I lost the instruction sheet for trimming the seals. I have 2 books with differing methods. One from the H and H flathead folks shows the pan gasket laying flat on to of the seal protruding out of the block. The Vern Tardell shows the pan gaskets trimmed around the protruding seals. I chose to trim them. I trimmed the pan seals to the thickness of the pan gasket. (This is where I should have asked for help) I used Gasgacinch sealer and installed the pan with 18 ft lbs on the pan bolts. The pan needed to be squeezed down to fit the front seal around the crank shaft. Not sure how much was because the seal ends were to long. The result was the pan gasket squeezing out. My main question is how much should the seals be trimmed front and rear and should the pan gasket be cut around the seals or in between the mating seals. Or some other technique.