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Well well well.....despite being a computer geek I can turn a wrench when I want to. I had doggie training with Jill tonight but before I left I had an hour into tearing the car apart again. Spent another 2.5 hours after I got back and ended up taking the tbelt half off and tensioners....got another little crank on all of the water pump bolts! They must have needed a little extra love after the car had warmed up for the first time.

I had txt'd Kracka and told him to stop by so he could put more break-in miles on his new clutch, and he helped me put everything back together again and fire her up! He stayed for almost two hours despite having to be up early for work, that is a good friend for ya! After he left I finished up and made a few laps around my neighborhood and got back with zero drops on the floor that I could see, even jacked the car up and looked very very closely.

I'll drive the car to work tomorrow and see what happens, guess she just needed a little more cowbell!

Also figured out that my tensioner was twisted the wrong way...which is what gave me the motivation to just take it all apart again! I had it spun up like a 6-bolt...but I have a 7-bolt evo motor in my car, so it needs to spin down, counter clockwise! whew!

I hope this is the end of this for a while, I suck at doing this...I ended up doing the tensioner like 4 times to get it right, and then was off a tooth on the crank sprocket, so did it another 2 times...I just plain suck at doing car work, but in the end I get it done!