91extcab
+1y
I'm pretty sure the removal of the belts is required to pull the head to get to the gasket, so when reinstalled you would have had to re tighten the drive belts. Still gonna say the squealing was caused by loose belts, and not a crack or multiple cracks in either pistons or the head gasket. I'd personally say you just did a bunch of extra work to fix something that could have been a 5 min belt check.
But to each their own.