Engine swap yes or no?

[68isgreat]

Originally Posted by HO455

If your going that route then I highly recommend that you supply the gasket set to the shop. At that price point you're going to get the cheapest gaskets available and after 20 or 25k miles the oil leaks will start getting out of hand. Ask the shop if they will upgrade you to a Felpro or other QUALITY set and if not see if you can provide the gaskets. Just the voice of experience here.

I would also ask for new rocker arms. The shop will reuse whatever one's they have around and some of them may have 200k miles on them. I have a $1500 SBC 350 rebuild in my Burban from a shop in Portland and these are my experiences. Nothing against the shop, the engine is still running good but, it leaks everywhere. The shop was also good to me when the rocker arms failed.

Nether one of these items will change the price by a lot but they should give you some of piece of mind.

The link has more information on my rocker arm experience. Starting at post 372.

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...698377&page=15

Great info, thanks. After re-setting the timing yesterday, it's running great. Just a minor oil seepage at the back of the intake, so I'll be re-sealing that soon. Going to hold off on the swap for now.