All aandp's aren't anal. I had a friend in Muscle Shoals AL who drove a veebub bug whose head was held on with a whole bunch of screw hose clamps end to ended around the whole motor. He drove it that way for several thou miles while he saved up his whiskey change for a new block without srriped out head bolt holes. Best diagnostician I've ever known, God rest his soul, gone these many years. Jim Beam killed him in the end.

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