Most OEM iron blocks have tight tunnels and some of the shops would hone the tunnels for proper bearing fit or crush priorto bearing installation. Since it's not OEM iron and assuming you're looking at a sleeve-type bearing, I would measure the tunnel bores prior to installing the bearings, just my 2 cents...


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