Block heading to Painters

[Rustabus]

#10226

Wish me luck!!!! I’m having a mystery DP motor I got a while ago stripped down and shipped to Painters for a rebuild. John said it seems like only 1 in 4 that are sent over are rebuildable! I need Positive Thoughts!!!!!! 🙂

[Pat K]

#10230

Rusty your awesome. “It’ll be fine.”

We will build it if it comes.

[Rustabus]

#10236

😉 Everything I own is pretty much almost perfect so I’m sure nothing could possibly be wrong with this junkyard motor!!! 😉

[volksaddict]

#10243

Is it a dual relief case?

Did you clean it, look for cracks at the #3 web, oil cooler area, center main? What’s the line bore oversize already? Is the center main pounded? Warped? Thrust beat out?

Might save you a buck on shipping….

[Franz]

#10253

You stared a thread to remind me about your core engine? This must be a priority.

My bad, I didn’t think it was. Since we’ve been tripping over it for 3 months.

[Pat K]

#10256

volksaddict wrote:

Is it a dual relief case? Did you clean it, look for cracks at the #3 web, oil cooler area, center main? What’s the line bore oversize already? Is the center main pounded? Warped? Thrust beat out? Might save you a buck on shipping….

It would take Rusty a week to write that list. ?

We will build it if it comes.

[Franz]

#10259

GOOD news. It has a GEX sticker on it. Most likely 100% junk. Why you wasting our time??

I just helped Pat lift it from the floor to his bench so that he could take it apart for you.

[Critter1]

#10263

Franz wrote:

You stared a thread to remind me about your core engine? This must be a priority. My bad, I didn’t think it was. Since we’ve been tripping over it for 3 months.

😀 😀 😀 HAHA!!!

[Franz]

#10267

distributor drive and one cylinder full of water so far.

[Peet]

#10268

I don’t know what Franz is being negative about. We’ve sent more questionable junk to Painters before. Long block is ready to go

[alykat]

#10269

Rustabus wrote:

Wish me luck!!!! I’m having a mystery DP motor I got a while ago stripped down and shipped to Painters for a rebuild. John said it seems like only 1 in 4 that are sent over are rebuildable! I need Positive Thoughts!!!!!!

I like and respect Painters, but I think they reject a lot of blocks that in fact could be rebuilt.  I’m just not sure what their parameters might be. I’m sure they don’t want to deal with anything that might be anywhere near borderline but still, where do you draw the line ?

[BBWB]

#10274

alykat wrote:

Rustabus wrote:

Wish me luck!!!! I’m having a mystery DP motor I got a while ago stripped down and shipped to Painters for a rebuild. John said it seems like only 1 in 4 that are sent over are rebuildable! I need Positive Thoughts!!!!!!

I like and respect Painters, but I think they reject a lot of blocks that in fact could be rebuilt. I’m just not sure what their parameters might be. I’m sure they don’t want to deal with anything that might be anywhere near borderline but still, where do you draw the line ?

Back in the day when I lived in Denver, Painter’s did the machine work on a block for me that needed a fourth cut. Said I could get a special set of bearing from them. Don’t know if they bother with that extreme anymore. But I put a good 60,000 miles on that engine.

I'm at the age where "fuck off", "fuck you", and "fuck it" answer most questions.

[Rustabus]

#10275

Yeah Grumpy Pants!!!!! Remember “Positive Thoughts!!!!” 🙂

[Pat K]

#10286

Peet stripped it down today.

Think we should leave the stickers? Better chance they will rebuild it if they don’t know it was a GEX???

We will build it if it comes.

[JasonS]

#10288

This might be a good candidate for a burn in the desert, GEX reminds me of college of what looked good after a case of beer then the next day thinking my friends played a prank on me.

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