Justin, both you and I remember being broke and young and trying to attack jobs that we didn't know enough about simply because we had to.

The young owner was paying a lot of attention, however he simply didn't know how the oil flow pattern in the Savage runs.  Heck, until I followed a thread or two on this list I sure didn't know how it ran.  If you told me the little jet dingus at the end of that case gallery was a pilot jet that controlled oil flow to the transmission while maintaining a balanced flow to the head through the hole on the other end of that gallery I'd have LOL'd at you.

I sympathize with these "doing the best I can" folks, there but for the grace of God have been I (just last week as a matter of fact).  I have learned to do net research on my projects before digging in too deep though, and that saved me last week and projects previous as well.

It was an expensive mistake -- motor is trashed.