I've had it with this 904, about to give up!

Really...very interesting. The ball is a little malformed now. Maybe I should try to find one that's the same size to replace it? Surface looks good, now that you point it out it looks gouged in the pic but I just checked and it must have been the light or something. I can't for the life of me find the bolts in any of my transmission parts bins, I guess the ones from my spare trans are going to get snagged.

Story of my life, 80fbody - I pulled a similar deal with my old chevy truck. Several months ago I swapped cams and heads on it (350) and after I got the timing cover installed and the oil pan re-fitted, I realized I forgot to torque the timing sprocket bolts. Thank goodness I remembered, and the only bad thing was making a mess removing fresh black RTV to pull it back apart.