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SneakyOwner Always turn the motor over by hand after u do any serious work to make sure everything spins smoothly. If you turned the motor over by hand you would of felt the pistons hit the valves and known something was wrong. I thought that was a rule of thumb.
words to live by.
always turn the crank by hand, if it stops and doesn't turn, stop and analyze why...
instead of putting it all back together only to find out ....