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.. so the block that I overpaid to have the machine work is toast now ($1000 to hot tank, bore .030, and line hone). My fault, I didn't know what I was doing when I honed it and I tapered the cylinders, doh!
Feel free to call me an idiot, haha. (I laugh on the outside, but I'm crying on the inside, thats a lot of money wasted!) Now I have a choice, either buy a new Ford production block from Summit, or get one from a junkyard. The guy who is helping me swears that you don't have to magnaflux an old block, he has an oven and some type of cleaning machine and says that when he gets done with cleaning the block, you would be able to see any stress cracks... I thought the point of magnafluxing a block was to see cracks that you wouldn't normally see with your eyes on just a cleaned block, am I wrong?
Anyway, I want to get the block from summit because that would eliminate worries about having a crap block, but getting the one from the junkyard will save me about $400. What do you guys think?
Anyway, I want to get the block from summit because that would eliminate worries about having a crap block, but getting the one from the junkyard will save me about $400. What do you guys think?