After discovering the issue with the distributor Chris dug through some boxes and discovered the correct spacer!
I got home, scarfed some nummy greek food and got to it. bolted up intake manifold, threw the head on (THANKS AGAIN HUGHES!), and ran into a quick roadblock.
Last night I had the new L19's installed:
I ended up having to pull one of them back out once the head was on b/c the washers are so big it got bound up on the spring.
Once that was sorted, torqued the L19's to 91 ft-lbs, hooked up the cam gears, and put the valve cover on. Hughes had to take off just as Jim showed up to offer me moral support. I was gonna be done at this point but Anna was doing other stuff so I just kept my head down and buttoned everything back up! Filled the coolant and ran some o'reily's 10w30 oil through it for a few minutes, drained it, changed oil filter, filled with Mobil1 10w30 and started it again to make sure all was well. While the oil was draining I did a quick boost leak test and discovered that I might have ripped one of the injector seals when it popped in (felt a tish of a pop as it seated
). So, I'll check that out tomorrow and finish putting the heat shields and whatnot on.
Thanks again for all those who helped me, even those who didn't help this time around but helped me last time. Definitely not afraid to do a HG again, just hopefully its not on this car!
