Milestones:
120K: threw timing chain, bent valves, etc. 240K: using a QT of oil every 1K mile, rebuilt engine. Most of the cost and damage was due to the real crappy work done at the 120K incident. 300K: present time, replace radiator and fix minor oil leak up front.This is the first time that I've done engine work since the two incidents mentioned above are beyond my time limits to do the work - I only have the one vehicle. My previous experience was all on cast iron American short blocks, back in the day.
So I see I have a pretty slow oil leak up front - no running oil, just accumulated dirt and oil, very thick and negligible oil loss per the stick - but I have to replace the radiator and I figure I may as well replace the front main and oil pump gaskets. It's all going well, but when I take off the oil pump housing, I see this:
So I'm putting it back together and torquing the bolts per the manual and - oh hell - the lower left bolt is spinning. I can't pull it out, but I back it out and sure enough, there is about 3 turns of thread that came out on the bolt. Well, when I took that bolt out I noticed that there was fresh oil on it and I figured that is where the oil must of been leaking past and now I know that it probably wasn't torqued correctly.
I am at a total loss of what to do - the right thing to do.
I hope that somebody has seen this type of fix before and has some advice.
thanks for listening, jim