[HayZee518]

Oh I will play by play. Bob I called your son. Very impressive. He knows what he's talking about. I sent him a few pictures of my in-progress work. I pulled out the gaskets yesterday and looked at them with a big magnifying glass. You can see where the gasket material is squished near the bottom, but not touched at the top where the leaks happened. The gasket material on that plastic/rubber carrier are tubular shaped. If you ever heard of a plasti-gauge, it looks almost the same when compressed. Thing is with a gm car they mixed american and metric bolts together on the engine. The torque values for the engine bolts are in inch-pounds not foot-pounds like we are all used to. Smaller may be worth it, but not on these hot running engines.