[Walt Fricke]

I circle each valve area with a bead, with side loops around each stud and locating hole for good measure, and call that good.

Being anaerobic, this stuff doesn't start hardening (at least not significantly in any reasonable period of time) while you are applying it. It only starts hardening when you put the parts together. That's when you need to get everything tightened down without stopping to do something else. No panic, this isn't like epoxy with a bit too much hardener added.

Your finger gooping method can't have put it on too thin. Remember the factory's small paint roller method - that coating is thin. Of course, if you swipped a finger all the way across some important area and wiped it all off there by mistake, that could be trouble. Doesn't look like it on your photo.

At the tranny end of the cam carrier, in the middle between the upper and lower covers, is a 17mm headed bolt. Actually, it is a special bolt with a precise lenght and a pointy end, and needs a crush washer. It holds the cam spray bar in place - the pointy end fits into a hole in the spray bar so all the little spray holes point to the right places. It mirrors the one on the other end that holds the external cam oiling line banjo in place. You probably didn't remove those bolts, but I suppose it wouldn't hurt to replace the crush washers.

Walt Fricke