now that the engine was completely pulled down and i had removed the valves. i cleaned all the internals in the diesel bin with de-greaser and a wire bush i sent the block off the be pickled (acid was because its alloy), welsh plugs, decked, hoaned boars and mains, the piston and rods to be balanced and cloase and hoaned, the harmonic balencer balanced, crank linished, balanced and pickled, flywheel balanced, sump and timing cover pickled.
when it all came back from the shop with its $450 bill i had put new piston wrings on it $80 new main, end cap and thrust washer/bearings $125. but before i throw it all back in i p-ainted the block silver, but when they did new welsh plugs they put gold ones in so for a nics touch i covered them so they would stay gold, painted sump silver, pan black, timing cover silver, harmonic balancer black and pullys and brackets black.

ive got my maddat fitting kit just before christmas with all its bits and pieces.
will load pics of all that soooon!

Just looking at brake boosters
is it okay to use a 180b booster??
I know there is the short and long types