Kill me now, please.

I get the tranny in. Re worked k-member in. Struggled and finally got the engine in place and everything bolted up.

After a day or two break I come back and get my headers in place... i go to attach the fllexplate to the tranny, and I cannot turn over the motor...

I check everything I possibly can... the motor won't turn over. Spark plugs out. Check. Big cheater bar on the harmonic balancer. Check... I use way more force than I have to, and it turns a little, then nothing.

The motor ran great other than some blowby from weak piston rings. When I replaced the timing chain and oil pump, it was clean as hell, only a tiny bit of bs in it.


Then my wrench partner divulges that he pulled a cap (rod? main? who the **** knows) to check the bearings... and just tightened them the **** down.


Now I have an engine i can't turn over, and flexplate bolt I can't reach... and I am going to have to have someone more intelligent than me, solve the problem...

AFTER, I pull everything back out of the car...


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