Heed what Jerry says -- A lifetime of experience there.
In more than 20 years of running this forum, we've never had *anyone* report back after ignoring advice like that... It's either "Yeah, I took your advice and rebuilt the engine. Man, you should have seen the bearings/crank journals/cylinder walls/cam lobs/etc -- they were trashed! Thanks for the advice" or we get crickets.
My guess is that no one wants to admit "Yeah you told me to rebuild it but I went ahead and ran it anyway ... and now the engine is a bunch of little pieces of scrap metal. Just like you warned me."
Happy rebuilding!
