I'm not your mama. I tell you big boy truths.
If you don't tell the shop that one cylinder ingested a valve seat, how would they know?
I walk into a shop and say, take these rods off these pistons and put the rods on these other pistons
and what do you think I will get?
I'll get the rods, as they were, on the other pistons,
who knows?
Maybe the original poster can go back to the machine shop and say,
" it just occurred to me that one or more of the con rods may haver been bent due to an ingested
valve seat issue, and see what they say? Maybe they were checked for straightness. Who knows? But if one poses that question as price for the piston / rod change over is discussed, one would know, and that is the lesson.
All I am saying is that when you are giving advice across the internet to someone that has an interest, but is
new to engine building, don't spare the details. Fate is always best when it is in your own hands.
