[Walt Fricke]

Cabmando
I mixed up your initial problem a bit in my head - somehow I thought something inside had failed. "Just" an overrev might not damage the crank, even if it overstressed the rod bolts, and maybe damaged the rod bearings. The cranks and case are pretty stout, and if you didn't lose too much oil pressure or ran too much or too long or at too high a temperature over normal, maybe the crank wasn't damaged. I can see balancing out what to do after you have the rods off and can look at the rod bearings closely, and get a decent view of the crank journal surface. If one is all dark blue and the others a nice shiny silver, that would be a problem.

Something a lot of guys who assemble their own engines (like me), or are real engine builders (for a living) , either don't realize or don't want to utilize is the fact that the orange Loctite 574 Porsche used is self-soluble. A new thin layer will soften the existing hardened layer, which means you don't have to be meticulous about scraping off the old stuff. The factory manual says just that. I just knock off any big blobs (which are outside the mating surfaces anyway), and have not had a problem.

Other sealants may not work that way, though.

Getting everything bolted together fast enough so that something hasn't dried hard before it is compressed isn't all that hard either. For one thing, you can just torque by hand (or a drill motor) for the first go around to an approximate torque a bit less than the final torque. That will squeeze out every bit as much excess sealant as the final value. Then get out the torque wrench and take your time.

But with some ingenuity, you don't need to do that. The best thing is to have someone help you at this stage, and have all the hardware clean, lubricated where you might want a bit (case through bolt O rings), and assembled (same bolts). Homemade props for three rods, plus something similar for one cam chain do make all this easier, to be sure. It goes quickly - through bolts first, then perimeter stud nuts. You've got to do this sealing the cam carrier to the heads at this point.