At work today on a 24 hour shift.
I'll get one this week and post it.
Thank all of you for all of your input.
I really want to try to save the block.
Quick question, everyone says its expensive, roughly how much?
I depends. If I was going to weld it, I'd put torque plates on both sides and torque the main caps on it to TRY and help with distortion. I'm not sure about the two processes above because I haven't watched the video but I have used "stitching" to fix many cracks. You use a tapered cast iron pin and drill a hole and tap it. Then you screw the pin in until it breaks off. Then the next pin, and every one after that overlaps the prior pin by half. It's a great repair if you can get to the entire crack. And they way the parent metal looks in your picture it's been displaced quite a bit.
If I was welding it, I'd bid the job on time and materials and try and give you a high quote and then try and stay under it. Prep and post weld can run the cost up.
Don't forget if you weld it, you are going to have to machine every surface so that adds up too.
When you post a little better picture you'll get better guesses. Is there only one crack?
