Sorry to hear that Dave and glad that you got it taken care of.
A Little story on how we met.
Yep Zip i have been using the same machinist for 30 years had a few before him a friend of mine brought him over to my garage after i blew up two engines in 21 passes and the builders wouldn't help me out well both of them is out of business now and have been for a few years .
to make a long story short my friend brought him over to look at the engine it was destroyed i thought it was a 401 AMC that i was racing back in 1978 anyway he looked at it and said i can fix it the other shops told me to throw it away there was nothing they could do with it.
Well i let him take it with him two weeks later he brought it back to the garage complete ready to go in not only that he said lets put this thing and fire it up i couldn't believe it didn't say a word on how much i owed him we put it in and fired this thing up the next day we go to the track test and tune not only did he fix it i ran over a half second faster back then 4 speed car with the amc engine and ran 10.30 witch was pretty strong back then.
Well i still use him today and he is my best friend now Oh and the price tag on fixing the engine 720.00.