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Unhappy What would you do? Stock 3.2 Rebuild

Hello Everyone. Kindly looking for some advice and a next step really!
Just put my case halves together on my 85 3.2 engine. Everything seemed to go very well but after torqueing it up (followed Wayne's method per the book), I am seeing a lot less Loctite 574 squeeze-out from the top of the engine versus the bottom. I have included some pictures of top and bottom as a comparison. Everything seemed to seat very well when I dropped the left-hand-side onto the right and it also looked like I had really good coverage of the 574 before I did that, top and bottom.

Just wondered if anyone has seen something similar or know of any reasons it could have pulled together like this? This was a stressful process for me and I went through 3 or 4 dry fits (no 574) before I did the real one yesterday.

My concern is whether to tear it all down again and clean, redo or continue on as is and hope for the best!

Any advice would be very welcomed. Thank you


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