‘67 barracuda heat soak and timing issues

In my experience, inexperienced mechanics don't have a good feel for how tight a bolt should be. I have a young engineer working for me, great guy, smart and capable. But he doesn't know how tight a bolt should be. I have to go behind him and actually tighten everything.

Of course that can go the other way and there's plenty of newbies who strip fasteners. Weve all been there.

I worked in a transmission shop as a teen. We had a Mercedes in and the boss cautioned me on the install to be very careful about stripping threads on the bell-housing. Guess who stripped a thread on the bell-housing? Guess who was out of a job a few weeks later? LOL
that’s what i thought at first that i just wasn’t used to it but even my uncle had a hard time. not to say all of them are impossibly tight it’s just that im also not that strong or heavy for that matter so i cant get much power behind it. i haven’t stripped a thread yet but now i dont want to more than ever!