Well, I screwed up twice.

1st I stripped an Cylinder head bolt hole for the exhaust manifold. Got the Cylinder head back from the machine shop, installed it with a new head gasket, torqued it to spec per the manual, checked the timing, added new oil and filter and new coolant and it fired up right off.

However, exhaust leak. Bolt hole stripped. Oh boy!

So I checked for leaks and found coolant on the clutch bell housing. How the heck did that get there? Nothing on passenger side. Oh boy! Since there was an exhaust leak I purchased a time-sert thread repair kit.

I removed the cylinder head today and didn't see any issues. But there was coolant showing on the passenger side at the gasket when I removed the intake manifold and looked at the head when connected to the block.

Interesting. did I not torque it down correctly? I'm pretty sure I did. not my first rodeo. I checked the block for warpage and it was straight and level. Same for the head. Hmmmmm?

Well I drained the coolant and it was clean. Curious, I drained the new oil and it was entirely milky. What the @@>>>###?

I guess that I didn't torque the cylinder head down correctly or enough.

I chased all the bolt holes before installing. So that wasn't it.

Well, once I repair the bolt hole threads, I will install a new head gasket and try again.

not fun..