<VV> Cylinder base gaskets?

[Ray Rodriguez]

Well, I'm with another question.....

     My heads are currently off, and since I didn't have the foresight to prevent it my friend turned the crank.. unseating most of the cylinder jugs.  Will the jug base gaskets be fine when I retorque the heads, or do I now need to unbolt the con rods from the crank, pull each jug and re-gasket?  I've gone to a lot of effort to avoid oil leaks on this engine and I have a clarks "complete engine" gasket set so I might even have the replacements on hand....  I just hate to unbolt the bottom end for no reason whatsoever.

P.S.- for those with a good memory who are thinking "I thought you were splitting the cases anyway to put in a cam"... you remember correctly.  I received my Isky cam last week, removed the bellhousing, and found that there is already an Isky cam installed!!  DOH!!!!  So anyway I wrote clarks to see about returning the cam with the stock type gear pre-installed by them.. If the return is a problem I guess I'll be looking to sell the 270 cam with stock gear and new lifters.  All are unopened.


Ray Rodriguez