Originally Posted by
markk
You are still working round the fact that the part failed.
The fix is to modify the original part to stop it cracking in the first place.
I have done several of these and non have then presented any cracks post mods.
A crack is a crack. The part has still failed.
I think you're just be argumentative for the sake of it Mark

, when I was rebuilding customers engines and was faced with a cracked block the method I used was as described in my previous post and no problems were encountered afterwards.