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First, the guru admitted he had not turned the crank
or replaced the rear seal as I had paid him to do. In
addition, the bearings had no over size markings,
indicating that they were standard. The crank was
originally std., the guru said it could go std. but
would be pushing the specs. I told him to take it .10
under. The crank will probably now have to be turned
.30 under to clean it up if that is even possible.
When I asked about not turning the crank and replacing
the seals as agreed to, the guru told me that he was
the engine builder and he would determine what needed
to be done to the engine. He had no reply when I then
said , "but I am the customer." He will not return my
calls.
The block, the guru bored .60 over in all holes,
because he said one cylinder was corroded and he
didn't want to sleeve just one cyl. The rest would
have cleaned up with a .10 over bore. It turns out he
does not have the equipment in his shop to do the
sleeve. I may have spoken too soon on the block,
there appears to be a scuffing in one of the bores. I
now have it in a quality machine shop. They will be
cleaning it up and doing a complete evaluation.
I have chosen not to build an engine bored .60 over
and will go with a different block.
The guru did offer to rebuild it again for $2500 and
could not understand why I didn't take him up on his
offer.
regards,
Larry
Denver
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