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WhileImatititis...

I spent most of yesterday afternoon contemplating taking it the rest of the way down, checking the bearings, and even hot tanking the block and putting new freeze plugs and cam bearings in it. This way I could clean up all of the oil drain edges, drill holes in plugs, those types of things while at the same time being absolutely certain everything is fresh too. Wouldn't take much more to do it all now vs starting from scratch at a later point.

I think I've changed my mind 3 or 4 times already today as wekk on what to do... I think I'll pull a couple rod caps off and have a look see at the bearings...then decide from there. Local speed\engine shop is slow and offered me a heckuva deal on a full refresh, balance, blueprint, line hone, deck, complete reassembly...the works. And could still have it ready by this weekend if needed (it's not).

Hard to not completely refresh the thing with it all the way down this far but at the same time, this bottom end only has 15,000 easy Sunday drive miles on it now.

If any significant wear shows on any of the bearings, I probably will do it. If the bearings still look brand new...I'll probably just button it back up and call it good.