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Checks just completed...

• All intake nuts. All tight. Replaced barrels with 10mm nuts after rebuild. Find these easier to deal with...

• Rubber sleeve joining manifolds. Loosened and looked all around sleeve. This has bias towards 4-5-6 so a leak here??? ...Was tight. No cracks in rubber. Mating surface on manifolds are without blemish.
  
• ICV rubber. Not a contender for 4-5-6 but right in hand. All hoses are pliable and connections are tight.
  
• Intake manifolds. Cleaned & inspected during rebuild. I know they are not cracked and flanges to heads are all flat, aligned, and without blemish.
  
• Ignition wires. All oriented on dizzy correctly and run to where they belong.

Cylinder balance... that will happen when ECU's back in service. Results should be interesting.

Arriving tomorrow is a narrow wall 12mm socket. This is to fit into the channels in the SSIs that lead to head nuts. With the engine out and flipped over, it's one thing to access these nuts. Laying below the installed engine it's another. Regular 12mm socket will enter the channels but there's a seam at the other end that prevents regular socket from making complete passage. Fiddling with putting socket on an extension that's passed through the channel... not worth saving a few dollars now. I'll check exhaust nuts when narrow socket's in hand.

Must be closing in on what ails this engine.
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