AARRG! Did I strip my crank?

[davepl]

Well, reality forced my hand. I need to get it on a proper engine stand to replace the oil pan and various other tasks, none of which I can do with the flywheel on (doesn't clear my stand nor the alternate I had access to).

If I were smarter, I -never- would have torqued it down until I was finally ready to button it up. Since I had a wheel fall off once I'm gunshy about leaving things not torqued down...

So, I had to pull the flywheel again, negating my "hope it'll hold" wishes. So I'll start with a fresh set of ARP bolts and try it ONE last time when it's ready to get buttoned up, and I guess I'll find out at that point.

The great mystery is whether the bolt stretched or something went bad with the hole. My machinist friend had this to say, which convinced me:

"If something -does- go wrong, it's your toes, because that's where it'll come apart. So if it were me, I'd like to know for sure".

That was enough logic for me! Thanks for all of the input, it helped the panic...