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Originally Posted by Fritz
I had the same experience as Bruce two years ago in the Chicago area. The flathead machinist I was using could not guarantee the repair would hold up. I ended up finding a better block.
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I can understand not wanting to guarantee it but I don’t understand what happens that makes it fail. I just repaired one and pinned it and installed a new valve seat. I pressure tested it full of water with 50 PSI of air supplied and no leaks. I’ve seen my long time machinist repair many of them . Some of them been running more than twenty years. A friend of mine brought me an assembled short block for me to bolt on the heads, etc for his car that came from a well known builder on the west coast. I noticed it had been repaired in a couple of valve seats with pins and it looked like an old repair. That was six years ago and it’s still running fine.