So it's Saturday around 4pm. Everything has been returned to it's proper engine place, the mufflers are on, the valves are set to loose zero and all is right with the World.
Then I put 4 quarts of oil into the engine and......... There's a leak. Not a lot, just a few drops at the bottom of the oil pump. I don't know what's going on because it looks like it might start at the top of the oil pump or higher right there and I didn't touch anything there so I'm gonna wait a while to see what happens - God knows, it may be a fluke. It was also burping somewhere (the alt pedestal?) when I put the oil into the filler and I don't remember it doing THAT before, either, but dumping in a quart of oil onto the louvered seal at the bottom of the stand might be a lot for it to drain without burping, so I declared, "That's enough for today" and headed to the house. Nothing else leaks, like hoses or filter or cooler (which probably doesn't have any oil in it at this point) so as I said, I'm gonna sit on it overnight. Maybe a miracle will happen and it'll heal itself - Stranger things have happened.
And what's the worst that can have happened? I have an oil pump gasket leak or something and have to pull the engine and remove a few tins to get at the pump, but I have a pump puller and all of the paper gaskets in stock so what the hey. At least I've got prior engine pulling experience.
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