Our farm shop was also the neighborhood drop off point for everyone else's mechanical problems and when I graduated from H.S. I also took a job in town besides farming and besides working in the farm shop. As you can imagine I managed to stay quite busy. Neighbor dropped off his 1966 Chevy Impala 327 that needed an over haul and like everything else it got worked on when there w3as time. Took the engine out one evening after work. Took it down when it rained and couldn't get in the fields. Put the engine together over a couple evenings and when done I gave it a quick spray of paint and retired for the day. I woke up in the middle of the night and it hit me that I could not remember torquing the mains. Tried to go back to sleep and could not so I got up at 2AM and went to the shop and pulled the pan, sure enough the mains had been spun up with a speed wrench but not torqued. I developed a habit after that that has served me well and taught my two mechanic sons the same thing. NEVER install a part loose or or even install fastener UNLESS you have have time to properly tighten it. Many times over the years I have seen grave damage done by things that were left loose in an engine or machine.
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