The Teardown

[oldschool18]

I got this 71 blazer for the seats and the motor and a couple odds an ends, now when I went to look at the blazer the seats were in nice shape and the guy told me it was a good running 350 after he started it up it sounded great. So I was sold the body was shot but it had what I wanted, I was planning on taking the 350 out and dropping it in my 70 c-10. The guy I bought this thing off of was a Body guy who did some resto's in the past and did some mechanic's stuff as well and seemed like a real straight shooter........well I will never take anouther mans word and a hand shake again after tearing down the blazer and pulling the motor I find out its a 305 so i'm just alittle hot...so i email the guy and he pretty much told me to go sh!t in my hat.....so now my blood is just boiling........and I thought back to years ago when I bought my first c-10 and it had a little noise to it and the guy told me it was a bad flywheel so after I bought it and checked it out it wasnt the flywheel but a bearing so I called the guy and he gave me 200 bucks he said that would pay for a rebuild kit or he would get me anouther 350....well I took the 200 and I was fine with that...........am I wrong for wanting him to make this right and am I wrong for thinking that a mans word and a handshake is worth something. I couldnt see the numbers on the front of the block and I didnt want to ask the guy if he would take the alternator of and sand down the paint to get the numbers, I just took his word cause he is a truck guy and he doest live real far from me so i thought he wouldnt screw me I guess I was wrong. Sorry for ranting trying to get cool down but here are some pics