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Long overdo update - turns out the source of my intermittent front passenger wheel-area screeching was the brake. Pad was completely gone, and I pushed it a little too long, ended up melting the pad's backing plate and blowing out a piston in the caliper. Good thing I was already planning to replace the front rotors... it was a bear of a job but got it done, and it finally stops reliably, doesn't pull anymore, and doesn't make that terrible noise! Next step in restoration/repair, new muffler.

Just got Heads back on. The gaskets look fine, no problems. No sticking or indents, so maybe not torqued enough? A lot of coolant leaked into #6 as I pulled head off, but that was expected with leftover coolant in the DS head. No obvious issues, although I did get a couple of things wrong 1st time around. -The FSM calls for the head bolt washers to be inserted with radius side up. I missed that and they were inconsistent throughout. -I pulled exhaust manifolds all the way off on DS and off the Head on PS before removing heads. This made re-installing heads a lot easier. Maybe the weigh of the manifold affected my torque sequence? I removed and re-installed the Heads with exhaust manifolds attached last time. *I noticed some dust/debris behind timing belt cover on driver side, so need to figure that out. Belt looks fine, so need to investigate further. I'm hoping to have all this back together tonight after work.