Man, this reminds me of my old chess club days in high school. We put up a flyer for an open tournament and wrote that "all students are welcome to stop by the gym during lunch." The vice principal pulled it down because she said it sounded like we were telling kids to skip class. We changed it to "the event takes place during the scheduled lunch period on school grounds" and boom, no more drama. Funny how the same idea reads totally different once you copy the official wording. Guess the lesson is to just steal the handbook's words and save yourself the fight.

40 likes? That poodle was just mad you didn't take its side.

Ha, yeah, I learned that one the hard way too, except mine was a Subaru EJ25 and it cost me way more than a comeback. Did the same thing, slapped the old bolts back in thinking they were fine, and the thing started pushing coolant into the cylinders within a couple weeks. Guy was not happy and I had to eat the whole job, parts and labor, out of my own pocket. Now I keep a few sets of new TTY bolts on the shelf for the cars I see a lot, just so I'm not stuck waiting on a delivery in the middle of a teardown. It stings paying for bolts you used to reuse for free but it beats doing the same head gasket twice. Lesson learned the expensive way, same as you.