Installed and fired up my rebuild for the first time, and broke in the cam as required. Changed oil and filter after cam break in and just rolled it into the garage for inspection, and 500 mile oil change. Very happy to see no oil leaks even a dry rear main seal Did however discover a coolant leak which appears to be drizzling out of the rear press in freeze plug. Everything forward of this point is bone dry so no coolant has been blowing back to this point, just directly under this plug. Brass freeze plugs were installed by the machine shop that did my machine work. The shop is closed on the weekends and will not be open until Monday. I looked at the receipt it it does not mention anywhere about any type of warranty. What would I expect to here from a quality machine shop over a situation as this?
Greg
Well the leak has slowed to just a few drops here and there. The machinist returned my phone call and told me that they might have gotton a small piece of debri in the joint when they pressed in the plug. He says it probably will seal itself up in a short period of time. If it did not, I could swing buy and he could put what they called a engine rebuilder cube in the radiator and that would seal it up. I don't know anything about this particular product, but I've always been under the impression these products should be avoided?
Grego wrote:If it did not, I could swing buy and he could put what they called a engine rebuilder cube in the radiator and that would seal it up. ?
I would say no. That product should only be used on a used engine you plan on not keeping or something not worth the time to take in and out. This is a new engine and something like would not be an option to me.
yea, kinda sounds like that radiator stop leak crap that has tendancy to plug up the rad cores, as well as any leaks you may have. definately a bandaid approach.
Yes,I agree that his solution is a band aid approach. With having to have to run Penn 20-50 oil to keep oil pressure over 20 psi hot, I will be shopping for a new machinist for the stroker build for my jeep Cherokee XJ. You would not believe how many auto machine shops there are in the Seattle/ Tacoma area.
you know (and this is a little different i know), we had 8 car audio shops in town here at one point. with that many, you had to be really damn good at what you do, or youd be broke and out of business quick. actually, as of late one has closed for that reason. now theres 7, and one is not far from closing his doors too. with fewer shops theres a bigger piece of the pie for the remaining shops.
i guess where im going with this is, if theres so many shops, youd think theyd give a shit a little more
Did however discover a coolant leak which appears to be drizzling out of the rear press in freeze plug. Everything forward of this point is bone dry so no coolant has been blowing back to this point, just directly under this plug. Brass freeze plugs were installed by the machine shop that did my machine work. The shop is closed on the weekends and will not be open until Monday. I looked at the receipt it it does not mention anywhere about any type of warranty. What would I expect to here from a quality machine shop over a situation as this? 
