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onetoncrewcab · 12-16-2002, 08:55 PM

I've always just rebuilt my own. I have a machine shop do the boring, the head work, install the cam bearings, and check the rods and I put the engine together. I've gotten my last kits out of Northern Auto Parts in Sioux City IA. They seem to have pretty good prices. I think between the rebuild kit, machine work and new plugs, wires, dist cap and oil, I usually end up with about $600-$700 invested.
I'd do the head work, but I don't have all the tools to do them.
Those 350 kits are around $150 for a complete kit with pistons.
MJ

12-16-2002, 08:55 PM	#3
onetoncrewcab One of my kids. Cute eh? Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Mitchell, SD Posts: 1,286	I've always just rebuilt my own. I have a machine shop do the boring, the head work, install the cam bearings, and check the rods and I put the engine together. I've gotten my last kits out of Northern Auto Parts in Sioux City IA. They seem to have pretty good prices. I think between the rebuild kit, machine work and new plugs, wires, dist cap and oil, I usually end up with about $600-$700 invested. I'd do the head work, but I don't have all the tools to do them. Those 350 kits are around $150 for a complete kit with pistons. MJ