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Old 01-01-2019, 11:16 PM   #10
mr48chev
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Re: What's going wrong inside my 350?

I've become a bit of a skeptic over the years as I have come to believe that you can't call an engine "rebuilt" unless you see the receipt from the machine shop for the engine work and the receipts for the parts that are supposed to be inside of it.

I've seen too many guys selling "rebuilt" engines around here that had a quickie valve job, a ball hone job and a trip to the car wash to wash them up before being reassembled with a low buck ring and bearing kit. Nothing wrong with that if you are putting a driver motor together for yourself but it is false advertising if you are selling the engine as rebuilt.

Right now it boils down to check everything just as if you had pulled the engine off a stand and installed it yourself. Check for what else they didn't do right or didn't finish. Don't assume anything except that you need to check everything.
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