Well I found out yesterday where I will be starting on my 71 f100. Engine bearings and rods are knocking.

I will have the engine rebuild as I would like to keep the original block.

I will be using S and S Machine Shop in Mesa AZ anybody used them?

 

i have not, i am down in Tucson... i just had a 390 FE rebuilt and Matt @ Machineworks did a Awesome job! he used to wrench for Kalitta racing.

 

I went and looked over the shop Yesterday and discussed the rebuild. Looks and sounds like a good shop. We shall see. Mind if I inquire about your rebuild costs?

 

Sure, i did everything new... and it was 3500+ dollars for just the engine. by the time it was in the truck running the bill cam in at 6000. But! i did lot's of upgrades and high performance goodies.

 

Thanks Bill for the details

I am only having him bump up the cam a bit. Going to stay standard

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First off would like to say welcome to the AZ chapter. Secondly sweet looking truck looks very clean for its year. I have personally never heard of that shop as I am in Snowflake Arizona but a piece of advice watch there work watching somebodys work for even a few minutes will tell you a lot about how they will work even if you aren't experienced. I am not all that experienced and I watch them for how they treat equipment and how they work and that has helped me and my dad get from having bad repairs on our trucks. (It does aggravate them a bit having a 17 year old watch them work but that's to bad). I have seen a lot of things I don't like which makes me make sure I don't go to there shop (just about all up here in snowflake only 4 do I trust for sure). That's all I really know on how to help you I sure hope this helps.
Trav

 

someone has been very nice to that truck during it's life! yeah, you don't have to get carried away with a rebuild... if the engine was treated as good as the rest it doesn't need much at all i would guess.