Lowering the case half with the sealant on it down onto the other half wasn't difficult. I found that practice really helped here (pre-sealant, of course...). I had the timing chain positioned how I wanted it, and knew right where to look for proper alignment. No problems!
Here you can see that, even with a little pressure, the case halves don't naturally touch. I think this is because of the o-rings on the oil pump; they need a little force to fully compress into place. Here you can see the gap, before I started to tighten any hardware.
From here it's just a matter of working quickly to get all the hardware in place and tightened down. I followed the order in Wayne's book, which calls for hand tightening everything first, then torquing the through bolts in an inside-out kinda order, followed by the perimeter bolts. I was sweatin' at this point, not really sure of how much working time I had left- but after double- and triple-checking that I hadn't forgotten any nuts or bolts I called it good.
Here are some pics of the seam and squeeze out.
I realized that I put the through bolts on "backwards", at least relative to the pics in Wayne's book (he's got the round nuts on the right side of the case). Does this matter? I'm going to re-do them anyway, as I haven't put the green Viton o-rings on yet. My plan was to torque the through bolts, let the sealant set, then go back one by one to remove each bolt and seat the o-rings with some Dow 111.
Here's a good view of the case seam; alignment looks good, no offset.
From start to finish, it took me about 3 hours. Back at it tomorrow.
-Jake