[ThreeNuts]

Originally Posted by sdbob

From your picture I've never seen one do that. I use find all the 455s I could ,strip them out and give them$$ to an SS racer running out of Arnold Hines shop. All the Pontiacs engines I've assembled for myself 350,389,421,455 ,SD455 I've never encountered that.wow.

That's because anyone else doing this would have had the sense and wherewithal to tap the damned thing down before dropping in the bolts and putting a torque wrench dialled to 120-lbs on it.

I am assuming that a line hone means the crank is coming out. Also therefore that the pistons are coming out. Which means the intake, heads etc are also coming off.

I fantasized about a shop pulling the crank while leaving the pistons in the cylinders. Serious doubts about how that would work.