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have it done locally so he knows that it is correct.



And again I'll ask ... what ensures the local guy is correct ?? ...

If you bought an assembly from Ray Barton, Muscle Motors, or any other Mopar specialist, would you decline balancing in order to have it done locally by some yokel that builds 20 chevys or fords to every Mopar that comes through the door ?!?!?

440Source ONLY do big block Mopars and they do them in-house. To me, that's worth something. Sorry, "local" is no guaranty of quality !!



As mentioned above, we've balanced well over 2000 BIG BLOCK MOPAR cranks. We do them nearly every single day, all day long, in house.

The techs know what size bits to use, how deep to drill with them, which counterweights to drill on, and where on the counterweights the holes will need to be placed, based on which kit they are balancing and which components are included in that kit. They know this before the crank even gets put onto the machine. You would too after you had a few hundred balance jobs under your belt, never mind a couple thousand, all for the same engine type.

Last year we actually had to replace the brushes on the drill motor of the balancer, as they had worn down to almost nothing. Our Sunnen rep said he had never seen this before, even on his high volume Chevy production shops, probably because they aren't drilling through induction hardened and nitrated 4340 steel all day long, for many years.

No local shop is going to have a fraction of this amount of experience specifically with big block Mopar cranks. Not saying a competent local shop can't do a good job if they take their time and do it right, have good equipment and keep it calibrated (as we do weekly.) But at the very least, it's going to take them three times as long as us, and you're going to be paying for that time.