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Originally Posted by rspears

Worse, rather than taking out bolts one at a time and replacing them he removed the pump, destroying the gaskets, and simply pushed it back in place with half the bolts, and put them in finger tight. First he installed the crank pulley but left off the balancer bolt, and now he destroyed the gaskets and just left it for later without even cleaning the surfaces! ARRRRGH! What a guy!

Regardless, I'll be checking every bolt before the engine goes back in the frame.

Baby steps, but each step forward is progress.

I hear you on that!
After discovering finger tight bolts I'd be wary of anything/everything he could possibly have touched. It might even be prudent to go back to the chassis again; there may be some small thing you missed while assembling it. What had he put on that you didn't take off?

Baby steps?
Nah...ducks in a row mate, ducks in a row...

Originally Posted by johnboy

I hear you on that!
After discovering finger tight bolts I'd be wary of anything/everything he could possibly have touched. It might even be prudent to go back to the chassis again; there may be some small thing you missed while assembling it. What had he put on that you didn't take off?

Yep, he'd never put the IFS together, and the chassis is bare now so every bolt & nut is mine to do. I swapped the tranny for a 700R4 so he never saw that, and I changed gears in the rear and assembled the rear brakes myself. The only thing left is that he could have dropped something down the intake so I'll least pull the plugs and blow compressed air in each one....

In his defense, he'd go to a Goodguys or NSRA show with his pal, the guy who was helping him build his car, and they'd walk around the vendor area with him drooling, and buying stuff - different styles of 3/8" tube clips (different shows?), 3 different packs of header bolts, 2 styles of strapping to put between body and frame, chrome alternator, chrome fuel pump (when he already had an Edelbrock HP), and dress up stuff. Once home he would be itching to see how things looked, knowing his pal would help fix anything he did later so he'd cut open a package and play...... but then the pal moved away.