It seems if you don't constantly visit someone doing the work it never gets done...This lead me to doing it myself.

I once gave an engine that needed babbit poured bearings done to a machine shop. The guy had the engine for years. When I finally got so disgusted and when to pick up the engine he told me I owed him 300.00...For what, waiting?...I threw in a SBC and ended up rodding that one.

Dave