74 power wagon dream truck...

Concern is all it is Jpar, not trying to bust your balls. You built a bad *** truck and I’d rather see you enjoy it then have to rebuild it. Thanks for calling me a guru. That puts me in good company. I’ll watch quietly.
You're fine I just I'm not going to let it get to me that much I'm going to clean up the mess put it back how it was and see what happens...
I strongly believe it was just a simple miscalculation of too much cranking compression and not enough of a strong gasket... I can't count the amount of small block mopar's s I've had anymore and I've never had this happen.
Now I'm going to chalk it up as bad luck and again clean up the mess put back together and continue forward...