thoughts on removing main cap Options

[enderswift]

Hey 6g,

I'm working on attaching the upper oil pan to my 3s but got stuck on the old ARP bolt clearance issue. I thought it would be easy to grind away some excess aluminum from the pan but I don't like how thin the casting is in that area. Plus the bridgeport I want to use wont be free for a while.

so my question is:

what possible harm do you see in removing the arp bolts from the one main cap and just reusing the old bolts. I want to know if anyone thinks removing one main cap, and then re-torquing it will be a problem. The FSM is pretty strict on torquing everything in a specific pattern so I don't know how I feel about working on just one main.

input is appreciated!