I understand a lot of our engines are 30,40, 50 yrs old but , GEEZ the lack of rebuilders is alarming.

Doing my little search, I saw prices range from $3K to $14K+ and that's using your engine,

Wow.

I had a hard time trying to find a machine shop locally 16 yrs ago. Now that I can't even find cotter pins locally, I don't think it's gotten any better. And the crazy part (to me) is that http://samtech.edu/ is located in Houston. Where are the graduates going? They sure aren't staying here in Houston.