I just did something that might take the cake for stupid...
Got my new dizzy today for 3.0 auto, had the socket driver on the crank bolt, got it to tdc, blah blah blah. End of story - I left the wrench on and started the truck to time it. Kaboom! Turned it off and found out I really messed up.
My fan blade is toasted, so is some of the hard line from the trans cooler and the radiator itself. Ripped the fitting right off the rad, maybe it's repairable but whatever its the original rad. Zipped the crank bolt right off too but that looks okay. Bought a new rad tonight from oreillys, its a murray, mixed reviews...and some soft line. I was gonna cut the hard line further back where it's not bent and just run soft trans hose. The guy at the store didn't seem to think it would be a problem.
What other things should I look at? Theres no other aparent damage. Looks like the socket driver only made contact with the trans line and fan. Is there any chance this would have forced my timing belt to jump?
Oh and in case anyone is wondering my craftsman socket driver doesn't even have a scratch on it, live and you learn I guess

 

Many folks do that (with the spark wire pulled) to remove the crank bolt, so no, I doubt you've hurt anything else.

 

Yep... done that too... lol

Meh... I always say... "if it dont cost a small fortune to fix, you didnt learn anything" goin on that statement... I should have a phd in stupid at this point!

 

You have to torque the crank shaft pulley to 181 ft. lbs.

In the future when you change a distributor, just make a mark on the block where the rotor is pointing. When you drop the new distributor in just line up the rotor to that mark and you're good as long as you haven't rotated the engine.