Well the last month has been fun... From where i last posted, i picked up a standard bore overhaul kit because that is what the shop recommended i get. On 9/6 I got the kit to the shop that is doing the work. He pulled one of the pistons out of the box and mic'd them in comparison to the cylinder bores. Well turns out they were right on the border line of being within spec. He said, "They were within spec, but barely, and it didnt leave any room for wear. So who knows how long the motor will last after its put back together before it starts burning oil and loosing compression". So I called Sunrise Ford on 9/20, and I ordered up a .010" over kit, they also said they would swap it out with the kit i have as long as nothing has been used. On 9/22, they had the kit in stock, so i called the shop back, and they said to wait, that they sent the block to the machine shop to "be sure it was .010" over".
So after basically forcing him to measure the block, and him tell me it was "fine", it turns out he was wrong. Then he told me it needed to go to .010" over, and once i got the new overhaul kit, he didnt want to bite his tongue again, so he sent the block to the machine shop to be sure, because i guarantee he never checked the bores in the first place.
Now on 10/10, i finally get a phone call from him, the machine shop bored it to .010" over, and it everything came out perfect, and he picked it up on Saturday 10/8. So now im just waiting to get the standard bore overhaul kit back from the shop, so i could go swap it out at Sunrise Ford, and get this thing back together.
Im so done and over with this rebuild, I'm done dealing with shops, and dealerships, and my wife being pissed at me for how much money im spending, and how the truck isnt finished. Safe to say, i will never do something like this again.
So wish me luck guys.
