Hyup, I got caught on that line-hone thing. The shop basically Junked my block. After replacing the seal once and having it leak again before the end of the summer, I went back and looked at the first seal, and don't you know it, the evidence was right there. But it was so bad I went back to the machine shop, and showed them. With a straight face the guy behind the counter said "Bring us another block and we'll fix it; no charge." What about the decking and boring and squaring? "Well, no; we didn't do any of that machining".
And they never will see me again.
Ok long story short, I got a rope seal from a 383 and stuffed it in there with a little trimming. It's not happy about the knurling back there, but it's tolerable.
