Folks. last fall I dropped an exhaust valve in the #5 cylinder. I pulled the motor, found water in the oil, the "4V dot" cylinder's piston and head for #5 are pretty beat up and exhaust valve's head was gone and the intake valve is well bent, and a I have a small crack in the cylinder wall. I am going to get the block cleaned, magnafluxed, sonic tested AND get #5 sleeved if that is actually cracked. I have been told that in most cases, the cylinder next to the one that gets the new sleeve, gets pushed or moved a bit during this procedure. My question is...... do the neighboring cylinders move and then they have to be bored to make them straight? and if I bore one,then I think I have to bore them all so that they are all the same size......... is that right? And then I think I need new pistons because of all the boring....... is that right? the kicker is that the block is an XE Pillow block type of a cleveland.......... so I should probably spend the money.....is that right? Regards......... Crack Block Doug #6434
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