no permatex needed. All you need is a flashlight. Your IDing parts, not rebuilding the engine. You want to know why you have a non-HO firing order, then your gonna have to help us out because we can’t see your engine.
all you’ve been asked at this point to do is look at the engine and identify part numbers and snap a few pics. Then we can tell you “yes, that is correct for your car” or “no, that shouldn’t be like that”. They will provide clues that might get to the bottom of this once and for all.
we get you can’t tear an engine apart. That’s fine, but you gotta understand we can’t figure out what’s wrong with the car without being there to see a few things. We need more info, and much of that info you can provide doesn’t require anything more than flashlight and camera. You’ll even learn why we are asking the questions we are asking along the way.