this may sound pretty basic but make sure you tighten all the components in the proper sequence and to the correct torque specs.
I have done this wrong in the past and had a similar out come.
This is a good point...and while it does seem basic, no mistake is too dumb to get by me. I’m winging every project on this car! The only help I have is this forum...so I can say definitively that I just torqued stuff in an order that seemed logical and didn’t think too much about it.
I’ll look into this! Thanks.